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...Vasconcelos, in a big pink jumper festooned with a pink butterfly brooch, nicely complements Lord R, smart in a pale blue shirt and aquamarine V-neck, when they convene in Waddesdon’s Dairy....
...Chalfield Manor has several links to the monarchy and nobility. They begin with a sequel to the English King Henry V’s victory over the French at Agincourt....
...Although it is called a “manor”, it is a relatively modest building of honey-coloured Cotswold stone....
...The mill is part of a broader craft rehabilitation project that will see an arts centre established in the manor next to the mill, housing an exhibition space, print studios, library and archive....
...and manors that had been demolished during the previous century....
...He thinks Sloanes’ interiors have moved on from wannabe manor house to something a bit more anonymised....
...Many of the 17th-century houses in the village had thatches patched with corrugated iron, and the manor house was barely habitable....
...What A seven-bedroom, eight-bathroom manor house surrounded by formal gardens. There is also a four-bedroom attic flat as well as an outdoor pool....
...Limoz Logli, 78A Chelsea Manor Street, London SW3 (020-7351 1239; limozlogli.com)....
...Instead of the ornamented objects that cluttered Victorian houses, the halls of the country manors and Belle Époque vitrines, the things we actually needed would be so exquisitely tailored to their function...
...But, remember, V-necks remain verboten. Photograph: Elisabetta A Villa/Getty...
...The clock was the talk of last year’s Masterpiece, and is now owned by the V&A. How does this diffident, shy character work such magic?...
...V. Students and steers I know precisely two things about Christ’s Hospital when the Mini rolls into the parking lot....
...No Godiva this year, but the cake is back, freshly decorated to mark the (slightly more fitting) 600th anniversary of Henry V’s victory at Agincourt....
...In addition to its UK property portfolio, Stone Company also bought a nine-storey office block at Avenue George V in Paris for $160m in 2007....
...Although there has been no moment of catharsis akin to the revolt at Manor Farm, this is a story of emancipation....
...The last two Ryder Cups in Europe were affected by heavy rain – at the K Club in Ireland in 2006 and Celtic Manor in Wales four years later....
...Due in June next year is The Pig on the Beach, a refurbished 18th-century manor house above Studland Bay, Dorset, one of Britain’s most beautiful beaches....
...It aims for connoisseurs; has a full lecture programme; and has linked events with the Victoria & Albert Museum and Waddesdon Manor....
...Tudor times became the epitome of Merry England, with feasts and festivals, theatres and fairs, knot gardens and manor houses....
.... €2,500 www.palais-kinsky.com/en v Strawberry Thief curtains William Morris Cotton or linen fabrics with printed (rather than woven) flora and fauna patterns were a 17th-century European development of...
...Buttons like these are still to be found in limited numbers and at a price, and a visit to the collection at Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire is one of the best ways to get an idea of their beauty....
...The London Tamil Sangam, one of Britain’s longest-established Tamil community centres, is entered through a nondescript doorway in Manor Park in the east of the capital....
...The estate agent mentioned Parnham, which had once been a manor and country club in the 1920s, then an army hospital in the [second world] war and a home for elderly mental patients, after which it fell...
...It is dominated by farmhouses – tiny manor houses – called masserie. They are usually fortified against marauders but so coquettishly dilapidated as to invite a piratical pounce....
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