Hints and tips:
...The rooms have been delicately restored; everywhere is imbued with the patina of the years and a serene, faded elegance....
...The bedroom walls are cloaked in camel-coloured cashmere with matching curtains; the back of the door is padded and quilted....
...Each robust visible stroke conveys energy, vigour, wealth — lavish black satin doublet, cascading purple curtain: the perfect swagger portrait, imposing, unnerving....
...The show focused on the idea of La Parisienne, the French woman with seemingly effortless elegance....
...Each nude is revealed to the viewer/voyeur in enclosed, secret settings: the bedroom with curtain pulled back, a glade in a dense forest....
...When these dry up, it is curtains for the inhabitants, dragonfly nymphs included. Cooler, wetter weather is improving their survival chances. But the bans still irk me....
...Each bed is set like a stage, flanked by pendant lights and sapphire curtains controlled by a touchscreen panel with settings such as “Mood”, which dims the lights and draws the curtains....
...“Mme Berthe Morisot is French by distinction, elegance, cheerfulness, carelessness,” wrote collector Charles Ephrussi....
...The curtain has gone up on a new variety show. This is Alcina’s Island and its star is a stage goddess from the glory years of the Italian revue....
...The windows were treated with Italian strung curtains....
...The triple-height hall is a thing of hypnotic elegance and the spaces were decorated with anything from shells to feathers....
...He proposes a grey, cobbled Parisian street swathed in gloom circa 1930, which persists on stage from curtain-up to curtain-down. All roads lead to death here....
...They have set the scene with pale-yellow walls that highlight a black-lacquer and brass dining table and a set of black and white Louis XVI dining chairs that give the room Regency elegance....
...And on my wishlist are Adam Pogue curtains to go into my office at home....
...They cohere with particular elegance and delightfulness in the first-floor Casablanca and Fez Suites, which is where Conran’s sixth sense for mixing periods, textures and palettes meets ample indoor and...
...The zingy colours in these rooms save the blinds from feeling too old-fashioned, and the elegance of the silk contrasts nicely with the sensible tongue and groove panelling....
...But it has an incredible lightness and elegance. A true tropical temple....
...It is Stephen Tennant wallpapering his London bedroom with silver foil and hanging matching silver satin curtains....
...I think there’s a particular elegance in the way she moves, the way she holds herself, the shape of her shoulders and neck.”...
...Parma, the Italian city that is refined, precious, slightly off the radar though home to a High Renaissance school of delicate elegance — Parmigianino of the long-necked Madonnas, Correggio’s illusionistic...
...If Richard Macer’s documentary about the men of the Royal Ballet occasionally has the air of pummelling a door that swung open long ago (“Grace and elegance are still seen as feminine attributes” — tell...
...Instead, they juxtaposed the medieval madness with the restrained elegance that one sees in the Connolly shop on Clifford Street, thus turning this half-millennium-old house into a laboratory of contemporary...
...Dead for hours, with the curtains drawn, while they wait for mortuary space. For some patients who are awake, it’s quite hard for them to see that....
...You want giant white lilies for optimum, opulent elegance....
...You might want to give thought to your windows, too: swap heavy curtains for lightweight white or ivory sheer fabric. I like Tinsmiths’ selection, available online or at its Herefordshire shop....
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