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...The suites vary, but all are 50sq m with courtyard entrances, and furnished with pieces by – or at least inspired by – Arne Jacobsen, Eero Saarinen, Joe Colombo, Isamu Noguchi, Charles and Ray Eames et al...
...One can just imagine a steady stream of choppers zeroing in on the helipad, Larry, Sergey et al talking shop on one of its two 18-hole golf courses, or languishing in its 4,000 sq metre spa....
...Returning from the beach in the late afternoon, we found family groups sipping pink champagne on the terrace, couples sitting on benches reading beneath the palm trees in the garden, and toddlers running...
...From the piano, Parks, now 69, led an amusing, inevitably indulgent meander through his own past and, via covers, that of his peers (Ry Cooder, Randy Newman, Harry Nilsson et al)....
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...The air conditioning, wiring, pipework, soundproofing et al may now be state-of-the-art, but the look of the 118 rooms – pale boiserie walls hung with gilded mirrors, luxuriant Canovas and Pierre Frey fabrics...
...It took a moment before I realised they were copper-coloured sculptures of ants, art that looked like a hybrid of ET and the most malevolent cockroach ever depicted....
...What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF GUILTY PLEASURES edited by Michael Moran et al John Murray ₤12.99, 352 pages Classic toilet material: its half-page alphabetical entries are eclectic, opinionated tilts at icons and...
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