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...the countryside around Ponta Delgada on São Miguel island as the unlikely spot to establish their Gin Library in 2019 – a now globally famous gin-forward bar, and the largest private collection of the spirits...
...Its owners recently completed a several-year restoration that honours the genteel spirit of the original interiors with mod-con add-ons, both necessary and indulgent, including a saltwater swimming pool...
...(There’s also a two-bedroom family villa, with a small pool.)...
...It’s a neat synthesis of two different worlds with something in common....
...They are supposed to add delight to a garden, or to keep evil spirits at bay....
...Noise and parking are two common flashpoints here....
...“The common thread between our styles is a certain simplicity of form, and a richness of texture,” says Kean of the studio’s evolving look....
...To reach the old villa restaurant where we are to have lunch, my guest takes me along a beach fringing her childhood hometown. It is a stunning stretch of Albania’s Adriatic coast....
...We heard tales of earthquakes and of forest caves inhabited by thousand-year-old spirits....
...Wishful thinking isn’t the only form of motivated reasoning, but it is a common one....
...That same spirit of co-operation was in evidence last week, too....
...The museum is housed in the Villa Alsberg, a tall, narrow, early 20th-century townhouse ill-suited to social distancing....
...Part of what Loro Piana offers them — if they are forking out for its pricey cashmere — is an entry to actual “private club” style meeting with other kindred spirits....
...There exists a new spirit. There exists a mass of work conceived in the new spirit; it is to be met with particularly in industrial production.”...
...It has little in common with the mate de coca consumed higher in the Andes....
...But that they share a common DNA is beyond doubt....
...Christie’s International Real Estate is marketing a six-bedroom villa next to the Vondelpark for €11.75m....
...Timothy went to a local primary and then to the state grammar in Aston: he is a devout supporter of Aston Villa....
...Nothing new but one of the most comprehensive treatments, including all the old favourites from Villa Carlotta to Villa Alpinia and Isola Bella....
...But the new generation of collectors, who arrived on the global scene over the past two decades, have much in common....
...She is Anne-Marie Imafidon, a child prodigy who did GCSE exams at primary school, got into Oxford at 17 and now manages both to have a job at Deutsche Bank and be an entrepreneur and all-round free spirit...
...The spirit of the open road has recently spawned live-in communities of enthusiasts at “private garage condominium complexes”....
...Rodríguez is, after all, one of the most common names in Spain — making it a useful alias when engaging in illicit flirtations....
...“The old forms are in ruins, the benumbed world is shaken up, the old human spirit is invalidated and in flux towards a new form....
...Spirits were kept up by the 23 saloons....
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