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...Aldourie Castle Boasting high turrets, oriel windows and a round tower, Aldourie Castle on the banks of Loch Ness is one of the most beautiful Scottish castles....
...“It was a fantasy to think we might work with this master of American design,” Le Gaillard says. He cites Henry Moore and Jean Arp as reference points for Castle’s organic forms....
...That sense of fantasy and romance was front and centre in Freemantle’s mind when it came to her first decorating job at Aldourie Castle, a resplendent and rentable 12-bedroomed fort on the shores of Loch...
...And the Agatha Christie fantasy fulfilment comes with a nice feel-good factor: all operating profits are donated to the Magdi Yacoub Heart Foundation and The Littlest Lamb, a Cairo-based charity that houses...
...A Georgian Gothic Revival fantasy brought to life in Twickenham, south-west London, in the mid-18th century, it was once the home of Horace Walpole, the youngest son of Britain’s first prime minister....
...I mean: a castle? Sheer pageantry is some of it....
...Like many such castles in Italy, Castello di Cigognola has foundations dating back to the 13th century....
...One magnolia that will have to stay on my fantasy wish list, unless we move to acid soil, is Magnolia JC Williams, whose deep pink-red flowers can sometimes appear black....
...Having spent years researching the history of English food, I have managed to gather together a group of influential cooks from across the centuries for a potluck fantasy dinner party....
...With its retinue of exotic travellers in crimson turbans, rough shipmen, a flotilla of little boats echoing the grand regal one and a simplified landscape of Tuscan hills and tiny castles, Francesco Pesellino...
...DreamWorks turned William Steig’s book, Shrek, into a cult movie coveted for its child-pleasing fantasy and knowing undercutting of fairytale conventions....
...But let me indulge the fantasy, please. garage-italia.com Rachel Feinstein x Ippolita Fan Castle ring (available in silver and gold), from $500American sculptor Rachel Feinstein’s reinterpretations of myths...
...Piccioli was keen to reinvent the hierarchical symbolism of the castle, bringing his atelier team onto the catwalk in their white coats: “There are no kings, no princes, we are all human,” he said....
...A pass-through place that made me elaborate a whole alternate-life fantasy, which is what the best places do....
...There’s a massive Hogwartian castle on the hill; gravestones and plaques with names co-opted by Rowling for characters; and Diagon Alley-like streets packed with quirky indie shops....
...The house is set in the grounds of a 13th-century castle, the Château de la Bonde, its moat bordering Cocteau’s garden, which is studded with statuary from film sets, including the enigmatic stone bust of...
...Back in the 1970s and ’80s, the role-playing fantasy board game was the province of furtive clusters of boys in airless bedrooms and less-travelled corners of schools....
...“It wasn’t that kind of fantasy,” she says. “It wasn’t pretty pink castles, unicorns or fairy dust – it was more of a village fête.” The Sylvanian life is a moral one; some might call it banal....
...The walls were covered in dark plywood and shiny fabric, the floors were chipboard, the bathrooms tiled in folk-fantasy kitsch....
...The duchess is in town for the inaugural “American Friends of Belvoir Castle” gala the following night, which will be raising money to maintain the Leicestershire castle the duchess lives in....
...The opening moments of Tears of the Kingdom pick up where its predecessor left off, with Link and Princess Zelda exploring the underground halls of Hyrule castle now freed from the dominion of longtime villain...
...As one of 11 kids I value my personal space, so my first wish is to host my banquet in a castle, and there is only one castle- dwelling person on Earth I’d like to have dinner with....
...Penrhyn is a huge neo-Norman fantasy castle of the 1820-30s, on the edge of Snowdonia, overlooking the Menai Strait....
...Rolling Calf, a figure of nightmares who pursues butchers, while their mother Beatrice’s Trinidadian fairy tales involve the trickster spider Anansi and Mama Dglo, who can be petitioned for help from her castle...
...Louis erected an entire Bavarian fantasy castle with turrets and flying buttresses comprised of beer-related statistics. Very funny. Very tongue in cheek....
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