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...The plaster panelling in the salon, for example, is a trompe-l’oeil parchment, hand-patinated by a young Belgian artisan, Mathilde Van der Schueren....
...Van Zweden and violinist Frank Huang, the longtime concertmaster of the orchestra, made the case for the piece as an orchestral tone poem rather than the usual virtuoso showpiece, though Huang offered silvery...
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...My favourite building is Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater in Pennsylvania, the house designed above a waterfall that was built in the late ’30s....
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