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...The grace-and-favour home of UK prime ministers since 1732, it’s a modest-looking, brick-fronted terrace in a cul-de-sac, whose distinctive panelled oak door, painted Goth-nail-polish black and crowned by...
...Up the winding staircases are five stylish bedrooms and a great hall with a fireplace you could park the Volvo in....
...In this underlit room of warm wooden colours and eight-metre ceilings, almost everybody striding along the oak floors looks beautiful....
...One has a curving V-shaped base (£12,000) and the other stands on a solid column (£8,000)....
...“All the custom-made partitions, uniformly made of European oak, are conceived as furniture,” says Taha. “You can even remove the kitchen’s island to open up the whole floor.”...
...$500,000 A two-bedroom, two-bathroom penthouse in South Loop $2m A four-bedroom fully remodelled townhouse in Lincoln Park $5m An expansive four-bedroom apartment in a new development in Chicago’s Gold...
...His retune has resulted in a cocktail of concrete and pale oak, a blend of experimental 1960s structural optimism with the tasteful mainstream modernity of half a century later....
...Mateu Trias has set up camp with his circus company Baro d’Evel in a picturesque Lyon forest park for the annual Les Nuits de Fourvière festival....
...The original carved oak doors and panelling remain, along with many other period features....
...Hertz cites another commission in which he used the oak staves of drums used to store and age cabernet sauvignon....
...More columns at www.ft.com/ lander England v Australia, December 1-5, Adelaide Oval...
...Fashion designer Donna Karan has an antique oak floor with a simple white wash in her house in the Hamptons, while a home-owner living in London’s Holland Park ordered Ebony & Co floorboards painted black...
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