While the materials that makes up the interior side are intended to match their surroundings and contribute to the overall aesthetic appeal, there's an additional purpose of coziness and comfort.
Other uses include adding color, redirecting foot traffic, creating a foyer, adding a desk front modesty screen, creating coziness, or adding a decorative background.
The atmosphere, however, is not suffocating, but rather of coziness protected from the cold.
It is muckraking at its best and astonishingly prescient in its critique of the coziness of big media and other corporate interests.
Out of this case, a very interesting case, it appeared that a relationship of coziness and friendliness had built up over the years.
Furthermore, the coziness of the hearth indoors, while it added t o the outdoor pollution, was the only antidote to a degraded and grimy urban environment.