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...Restaurant and terrace The hotel’s interior is all wood and pale neutrals — light and calm pervades....
...Smart wood panelling in the premium rooms makes them feel especially luxurious. Bathrooms are relatively modestly sized, but larger ones come with full bath tubs....
...But the delightful concierge team will also tell you where the best river swimming is, how to walk to the nearest farm or where to cycle in the woods....
...Rooms The hotel’s interior is bright and modern — yet rooms are snug of size, with pale-wood walls, snazzy carpets and teal and mauve accents....
...The decor was a pleasingly tactile mix of wood, leather and silver, with a mirrored wall behind the bed reflecting the lake to add to the slick nautical feel....
...Soon the harder work begins, as one turns off the valley road and begins a short, sharp 200m ascent through the woods to the hamlet of Buchenegg on the top of the ridge itself....
...Eating in its wood-panelled, intimate dining room, with the kitchen’s pass at its centre, is not entirely unlike being shut inside a piece of modernist Danish furniture....
...embroidery, reaching back to the Bayeux Tapestry and the much celebrated, densely stitched medieval Opus Anglicanum, traditions built on by ambitious 20th-century textile artists including Ann Macbeth, Constance...
...“These are people who prefer to have their life in the woods,” she says. “They don’t live with technology and… are often complete outsiders.”...
...“Bauernschänke” actually means a place where farmers used to assemble after going to market; true to form, its simple, wood-panelled walls and benches once served solidly Swiss fare....
...A slice of modernism, completed in 1983, it houses one of Scotland’s finest art collections: some 9,000 artefacts amassed over a lifetime by Sir William Burrell and Constance, Lady Burrell....
...The panorama from the top is incredible – you can see the whole region, across the Alps and down to Lake Constance....
...“They don’t only grow in woods.”...
...It’s reached by a mile-long avenue trailing through parkland with a deer herd grazing in the woods....
...It’s a blend of neroli, angelica root, banana leaf, ivy, nettle and smoked wood that feels warm and sensual, yet fresh and light – and the green bottle looks great on my bathroom shelf....
...The other principals include Erin Morley, fresh from singing the Siegfried Wood Bird, as a radiant Sister Constance; Karen Cargill, the Ring’s Erda, as a strong Mother Marie; and Adrianne Pieczonka as a...
...appreciate old-fashioned experiences: drinking coffee in a sleepy café with a copy of the conservative German-language Neue Zürcher Zeitung; the happiness of children walking to school on their own; the neat wood...
...Its owner, Constance Spry, would become the great-grandmother of modern floral design and the first real “celebrity florist”....
...The best place to stay on the island is Capella Lodge, a contemporary beach-house haven of clean lines, bleached wood and floor-to-ceiling windows....
...Hauser & Wirth’s exhibition Schwitters Miró Arp, traces how the German artists took fragments of language and imagery, scraps of words and forms, cardboard, fabric, bits of wood, and abstracted them into...
...James Wood-Collins, chief executive at Record Currency Management, adds: “The likelihood of another Swiss franc shock cannot be dismissed.”...
...When Alice Rawsthorn became director in 2001, her wider range of exhibitions (including one devoted to the flower arranger Constance Spry) reportedly infuriated Conran, yet it was arguably that eclecticism...
...Half an hour later, Jérôme Valcke, Fifa’s general secretary, stood in the Baur au Lac’s wood-panelled lobby with an ashen face....
...Why does Constance go to war?...
...Ödön von Horváth’s 1931 play Tales from the Vienna Woods takes a twisted view of Johann Strauss Jr’s 1868 waltz of the same title....
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