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...When they call, they perch at the 1970s black-lacquered oak bar with its silver rail, or they might venture down the end of the room to the low-slung cream sofa by the French art deco designer André Sornay...
...He does, however, have a more laid-back entertaining option in the form of two Sauzay and de Tonnac-designed oak display tables that can be pushed together for a buffet dinner when required....
...The 11 accommodations, ranging from one-room junior suites to a clutch of small apartments, reflect the patrician rural setting: simple white walls and timber floors, cast-iron beds....
...A four-bedroom apartment in Oak Bay, a prestigious residential complex, is now priced at Rmb33mn, down from Rmb38mn in March....
..., €2,350I just moved apartments and have my eye on this armchair by Midi....
...“Last time I was here, their place was in construction, but now the apartment is amazing,” says Kim....
...Built-in cabinetry is almost invisible, the windows are in dark oak, and the hardware and light fittings are deceptively simple but profoundly elegant....
...Matured in ancient oak botti for three years and only released after a further decade in bottle, it’s as old school as they come....
...At a Christie’s sale in Paris late last year, a painted “Etruscan” armchair that once adorned Marie Antoinette’s apartments at Versailles, still retaining its original blue and grey pigment, hammered down...
...Apartments, from SKr18,000 (about £1,340) a night, with breakfast included...
...He often holds dinners around his low-slung oak table in his New York apartment, where starters might include scallops or oysters, and friends pitch in with the cooking....
...The building has solid oak doors, bay windows, light-flooded rooms and assistive tech by each apartment’s front door....
...For her own kitchen in a Bristol apartment, Cox opted for a country-house feel, “a mix and match of things; with the slight sense of disorder that I find pleasing.”...
...There are 120 hotel rooms, 85 residential apartments, nine restaurants, three bars, a spa and gym....
...“The alternative is oak and that is a lot more expensive,” he said....
...These furnished the Elysée apartments so President Georges Pompidou could wow visiting heads of state with France’s style prowess — soft power rendered in three dimensions....
...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...
...Marino, who started out his practice as a residential designer (Andy Warhol, Agnelli and Yves Saint Laurent were clients), was given carte blanche to design a Marino apartment....
...It is now happily run as a hotel, but the listed building still holds its original shape, with slanting floors, winding staircases and ceilings propped up by oak beams....
...Corridors lead to several smaller spaces and a grand library with oak counters containing an archive of 600 drawings....
...Today, many of the Belle Époque hotel buildings are shuttered, or converted into cheap apartments....
...I ask him how one produces oak extract without alcohol. “That I’ll never tell,” he grins....
...A collection of 100 oak-cased optical theatres, which are harder to find, can be purchased at Paris’ Pingel Rare Books....
...But as we flew back to our rented two-room apartment in suburban Japan, we realised that living it up and acting with conscience need not be incompatible....
...My apartment was 80 degrees and I looked at my wine and I thought, Oh no, (laughter) why’d you think about this now?...
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