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...the first ever made by a private company....
...She was dressed elegantly in a V-neck white linen blouse, white trousers and a pair of trainers. But the signs of her injuries were everywhere....
...But in their dining room, they left three large Kandinskys hanging, including the important 1910 painting “Composition I”....
...Situated in a house dating back to the 14th and 15th centuries (with a wonderfully irregular facade), it is an absolutely stunning collection of rooms, from Renaissance to Rococo, mixed with Aulenti’s cool...
...Among his masterpieces are two houses on Rothschild Boulevard: the Yitzhaki House at nos 89-91 and no 48, which is poised to open as an 11-room hotel, R48....
...The failure of one of Drexel’s biggest clients, the Executive Life Insurance Company, destroyed the retirement incomes of thousands of Americans....
...When insurance companies stopped funding spa cures, visitor numbers fell further. Today, many of the Belle Époque hotel buildings are shuttered, or converted into cheap apartments....
...Situated at the nose end of a wedge-shaped group of seven ornate 19th-century buildings that used to house the La Equitativa insurance company (more recently Banesto bank and Santander), it is part of a...
...Rather than ape the Wes Anderson aesthetic, as so many luxury travel companies have done, it hired the director himself to design the carriage, an immaculate art nouveau style dining car....
...But it’s taken till now for the company to open an outpost overseas....
...He was in demand as a businessman — governor of one insurance company, director of another and chair of a new technology start-up (the wrong technology as it happened, his oil gas company losing out to coal...
...The Starlight Pool, with the sky visible via a retractable roof, will comprise a winter garden, private dining room, library, workspaces and residents’ own dedicated theatre....
...The hotel was the first with telephones in every guest room and one of the first to offer room-service dining. In 1939, it was also one of the first in the world to add air conditioning....
...Of course, for the ultimate in French power lunching, nothing beats the in-house private dining rooms at Axa, Hermès or Rothschild, whose cellars (and discretion) are unmatched....
...Wentworth Woodhouse was once the largest private home in England. When King George V stayed here in 1912, 40,000 people packed the gardens to watch him arrive....
...The only house without a terp, she foresaw, “will get all the water. This would be unthinkable in the Netherlands.”...
...Previous trips to the Netherlands have always been to Amsterdam, although I once spent an afternoon in The Hague....
...The Coronation Egg of 1897, latticed with gold eagles and studded with diamonds, opens to reveal a miniature carriage, a replica of the gold carriage that bore the tsar and his wife to their coronation,...
...Sala Kdei, a traditional Cambodian wooden house set in a jungly green garden very close to some of the temples, is the perfect retreat....
...At the heart is a large multi-fuel stove with a back-boiler system to heat the radiators. The couple used a broker to find the boat in the Netherlands in 2013....
...Past the library, through a dining room and then a sitting room, the apartment culminates in a bedroom and adjoining bathroom that looks out on to Place Vendôme, the tip of the Eiffel Tower just visible...
...He was later told by a Wetherspoons pub manager in Exeter that, unlike him, she had been treated privately for appendicitis under the company’s medical insurance....
...“The room where we watch the telly used to be a formal dining room and we got rid of that. If someone wants to come to lunch or dinner, it’s around the kitchen table.”...
...“It became possible to construe larger — with higher ceilings — dining rooms, libraries, ballrooms etc with far fewer columns and support that had disturbed lines of vision and lent spaces a cramped atmosphere...
...We are in an open-plan living space with a dining table surrounded by Hans Wegner “Wishbone” chairs at one end and a light-filled kitchen area, overlooking a courtyard garden, at the other....
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