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...That owner (somewhat reticent to give us his name) is something of a character — a chatty Punjabi Cockney geezer who rapidly fires off pearls of wisdom about topics ranging from the changing face of the...
...and charm, packed, from the shimmering, almost metallic ridges of Mary’s gown to sparkling bronzed cherubs, with high-key detail....
...’s Pearl River Delta....
...“I think it’s very difficult to say to someone, ‘You save up a lot of money and buy yourself an apartment and the guy next door has been subsidised’.”...
...to create a city known, by the 1920s, as the Pearl of Asia....
...Each case contained a life-size woman made of wax. They were naked except for delicate pearl necklaces, and their heads rested on satin pillows....
...Why The literary associations begun by the Benton family continued with the second owner, literary critc Joel Spingarn, who regularly entertained Sinclair Lewis, Ernest Hemingway and Theodore Roosevelt....
...The main house has seven bedrooms, a stunning winter garden with bitter orange trees and bougainvillea; the guest house is a tower with its own outdoor pool and there is a two-bedroom caretaker’s cottage...
...Known as the “pearl of Asia” in the early 20th century, Phnom Penh has suffered years of civil war and a repressive communist regime, but its architecture of golden-tipped temples, red-roofed houses and...
...These were large mansions on huge tracts of land big enough to have a swimming pool, flower gardens and wide lawns for picnics and outdoor parties....
...and 38,000 apartments plus the “string of pearls”, a group of landmark buildings, including a Guggenheim museum designed by Frank Gehry, a performing arts centre by Zaha Hadid and a Louvre by Jean Nouvel...
...The present owner renovated the interior, converted the service flat into a summer apartment and built a pool in the garden. The inside, done in sumptuous art deco style, is certainly impressive....
...He lives in an apartment in a gated community called the Left Bank Residential Quarters, which comes with a swimming pool and gardens between the tower blocks....
...It is a neat confection of square bastions and rounded towers clenched with crenellations and pierced by loopholes....
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