Hints and tips:
...Now, I adore grass running right up to a pool’s edge. Much, much nicer than sad stretches of concrete or just a tad too many tiles....
...Elaine de Kooning wrote that her husband “adores Rome, the doors are so big and you feel so welcome”....
...I adore him. On the small stage at the side of the room, a singer appears at a vintage microphone wearing a 1940s gown. I half expect her to launch into the “Marseillaise”....
...“They came in with passion: ‘We’ll renovate it, we’ll put $5mn into it, we’ll give you 50 per cent of the profit, we’ll give you a hundred grand in rent.’ Boom! They were begging us,” Roberts recalled....
...Meta’s Pruett adores horror, and the emotional responses it can elicit — responses that Meta hopes its grand, eponymous project will elicit, too....
...It’s between a chef’s knife and a paring knife, and I do everything with it. korin.com Champagne Lallier Blanc de Blancs Grand Cru, £72.75This is my favourite champagne at the moment....
...The show was divided into a series of black-walled and black-carpeted boxes within the Grand Palais Éphémère....
...The song’s lyrics, by Elton’s regular collaborator Bernie Taupin, tell of a druggy, flamboyantly sci-fi rock band that the kids adore and their parents detest: a very 1970s set-up, although not exactly a...
...The Hebridean Princess mostly sails out of Oban, the main town just to the south of Morvern, which has grand stone houses along its seafront....
...It’s monstrous and grand. It has these huge columns and there are hundreds of people sitting on the stone steps out front....
...With nearly a million visitors, the 2010 Monet exhibition at the Grand Palais was the most frequented in Paris since “Tutankhamun” in 1967....
...They both adore haute couture – “I’ve always been flirting with haute couture, wanting to taste it,” Ackermann says – in terms of modern technique, and also its histories....
...She was introduced to Bartley by fashion stylist Katie Grand – “the three of us are all only children, so we’re like sisters” – and they started working together in the early days....
...The age of hi-def digital has made us blasé about grand natural vistas....
...Personally, I adore the peace of Venice and wish it could be permanent. But not if that peace comes at others’ expense....
...Instead, it is a lavish private exorcism — a grand getting-out-of-the system. Looking on, the sight is oddly liberating....
...As a result we have outsized arts institutions: The Museum of Fine Arts (Mies van der Rohe’s only museum in the US), The Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, the Houston Ballet, the Houston Grand Opera,...
...“A perfect setting for a grand weekend in a grand house” was the goal, says Vergeylen....
...My special one is the Museum Van Loon, housed in a grand 17th-century canal house. I once hosted a dinner there....
...I adore also a gilt-wood mirror, but be careful to avoid the Liberace look. How? I think one wants one’s gilding to be fairly dull, not too brassy....
...And what is interesting, because I was reviewing it only yesterday, is that the clientele is maybe 10 years younger than the clientele for the very famous brands like J’adore or Miss Dior.”...
...I don’t have grand proportions, but I still long for drama and swags and a Gothic pelmet....
...(Personally, I adore the idea of a much larger collection of these Delft tiles entirely lining a small room, such as a bathroom. Or even a large room!...
...My husband, two daughters and I stayed in a friend’s château and fell in love with the area, visiting the opera, taking tea in the Grand Hotel and foraging around Antiquités Vivian Morier....
...Projects run from multimillion-pound apartment developments and luxurious family homes in grand parts of London to country retreats in the Cotswolds....
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