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...£95 Handmade by Venetian artisans using traditional marbling techniques. cabanamagazine.com Valerie double vanity unit by Soho Home, £6,995 This ash burl veneer unit comes with an Arabescato Corchia marble...
...mytheresa.com Memphis Milano wood, laminate and painted-metal Hollywood side table, €5,100 The Elder Statesman cashmere Morph Striped pillow, £388, net-a-porter.com Louis Vuitton Murano glass, Carrara marble...
...The family spend most of their time in the open-plan kitchen-dining area – either at the table, constructed from reclaimed Spanish shutters battened together to create a generous surface, or around the marble-topped...
...Upstairs, the tiles of De Marchi Verona ripple like water against mirrored surfaces....
...You have two big, beautiful, marble fireplaces that compete for attention, but because the sofa is orange, that’s where my eye goes.”...
...What’s better than real marble? Fake marble, of course! One last thought on timber: combining with tiles is a brilliant thing: a painted surround with Delft tiles always gets a thumbs up from me....
...On marble and linen-covered countertops, chefs carved chateaubriand, mixed tuna tartare and served seafood on ice....
...Splashbacks and panels — which she ships across the world — are made using ceramics and glass, the position of each tile plotted on her intricate, jigsaw-like drawings....
...using bare marble in much of the building....
...The decor is pure chic, thanks to Charles’s penchant for pattern, marbles and groovy furniture that hew midcentury and colourful....
...Homage is paid throughout to the building’s art deco roots: pastel-sorbet tones and lots of shining nickel detailing in the lobby-bar; lovely shell-shaped marble tile work in the bathrooms....
...Jamb’s art deco style ‘Astor’ chimneypiece in black marble and onyx lends deeply glamorous Soanian drama to the drawing room, £27,500 + VAT....
...The duo’s first creative step in the city was an exhibition in the historical Graça Convent, their pared-back contemporary designs surrounded by ornate wall panels and patterned marble floors....
...Behind the Gothic facade, a custom-built kitchen features Calacatta marble worktops and opens out on to a courtyard garden....
...Inside, he maintained a palace decorated with superb Islamic tile work. Here he kept his harem and eunuchs, as well as his celebrated troop of Saracen girls who danced on top of rolling balls....
...“It has such strong parallels with marble,” she says, adding: “The fact that I have taken something fluid from the sea and transformed it into something solid and rock-like, I find quite poetic.”...
...matching bedding and toys available. lordsandlabradors.co.uk Hang It All hooks by Vitra, £265 The 1953 design by Charles and Ray Eames comes in various colours and finishes (there is even a far pricier marble...
...Where we had to see kitchen equipment, I made sure this was beautiful too: a copper-clad sink, brass taps, mottled Balineum tiles and a large range cooker with marble splashback....
..., mirrors and tiles....
...In one of the main sitting rooms, a reflective gold triptych by Panayiotou complements the Islamic-patterned tiles; another, also covered in Nureyev’s tiles, features a joyful portrait of Fiorucci and Russo...
...Now he lives there with his family in rooms lined in exquisite Portuguese tiles....
...Why Designed in the Spanish style, this house opens into a double-height entrance hall with a spiral staircase, and features dark wood carpentry, marble floors and terracotta-red roof tiles....
...Shower curtains and cork tiles are cheaper than shower screens or gleaming expanses of marble....
...Holden’s 1928 redesign of Piccadilly Circus, which brought the ticket hall underground and introduced low, warm lighting and luxe materials such as marble, helped rebrand the Tube as a sophisticated means...
...Look at the way the marble on the bathroom floor is inlaid with mother of pearl, and the pattern of its lantern tiles repeated in the embroidery on the bed linen and woven into the cotton of the pillowcases...
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