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...These were juxtaposed with contemporary pieces and avant-garde commissions, such as a 12-metre wedding cake made of 25,000 handcrafted ceramic tiles....
...More than 50 craftsmen came from Suzhou, China, to construct the Ming Dynasty garden, bringing with them nan, camphor and ginkgo wood, handmade tiles and stone pebbles....
...Extending this loose dynasty, “King of the Jungle”, a sculptural seat with a bottle wrapped in chains, hinting at addiction as a new enslavement, is by Dial’s son Thornton Jr....
...The crowd flowed between marble pillars, over crimson carpets and under arches skinned in thousands of tiny, mirrored tiles....
...I am also really drawn to the Alhambra Palace – the courtyards, the gardens, the tiles....
...Here are traces of rooms — tiles, plugholes, fragments of timber — captured at the point at which nature is about to take over, if it were allowed....
...there was no road or electricity up here — apart from the beep-beep of a motion sensor, clocking the visitors who have come to admire the church, with its intricately carved iconostasis inlaid with Iznik tiles...
...We’d often spend our days there together, me working, him sprawling on the floor of my office or, during summer months, on the cool tiles of the corridor outside....
...Some spaces have been utterly abandoned for centuries, which means that everything from the Georgian floor-to-ceiling wood panelling to the bright rows of early Victorian Minton ceramic tiles that line the...
...Their handsome steel trusses have been restored, vernacular clay roof tiles replaced....
...It had been a perch for dynasties of pigeons....
...But at Thorpe Lodge they are composed of mismatched tiles, probably thriftily purchased from De Morgan’s factory in Fulham....
...In the apartments of the Corsair Admiral Barbarossa, the level of luxury is raised several more notches: imported Iznik tiles from the Ottoman homelands clad the walls with yellow tulips, blue narcissus...
...And stylish too, with lots of warm blond wood, reclaimed metal and handmade brick tiles — plus open kitchens framed by walls of spice jars....
...Why In the 1920s, the villa was bought by the Mondadori family, the publishing dynasty....
...Inevitably, objects chart the rise and fall of dynasties, from the Umayyads of Damascus and Abbasids of Baghdad, to Ottomans, Safavids and Mughals — rival empires in a gunpowder age....
...Why The house is shaped like a pagoda, with roof tiles that were imported from Japan. The dining room has shoji screens, stained glass and lattice carpentry....
...Created in the 16th century by a breakaway princeling of the Jodhpur dynasty, over the next five centuries the fort evolved into a complex of elaborate courtyards and latticed balconies....
...“I don’t want to create a dynasty,” he says. I ask for the bill and pose one last question....
...And behind this orchestration is an artist who in a famous series of photographs shows himself dropping a Han dynasty urn. It shocks....
...Although we were wisely kept away from the Iznik tiles we otherwise had the hotel to ourselves....
...Daniel Chiu, chairman of Fortune Dynasty, blamed a lack of active trading shares for the bid to take it private....
...Owners Marion Trama, part of a French culinary dynasty, and Paul Hayat, who runs natural wine magazine Le Rouge et Le Blanc, make a formidable duo....
...Roux, 52, comes from the culinary dynasty that produced Britain’s first super chefs....
...Like Zhang, he knocks down derelict siheyuans, but uses the original bricks and roof tiles in the rebuild....
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