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...It has traditional features such as wood beams and ceilings, terracotta tiles and a fireplace....
...Why The sensitively renovated house retains whitewashed walls, dark wood ceiling beams and flooring, and pale blue woodwork....
...“It’s a work of art,” beams Brooks as she inspects the creature....
...You might understand it as Bette Davis and Joan Crawford’s monstrous siblings in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?; as a drag queen’s stock in trade; and certainly as anything covered in rhinestones....
...Inside, the south-facing house has traditional floor tiling and wooden beams; outside, there are mature gardens, a pool and sheltered terraces....
...by designer Ilse Crawford....
...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....
...Such garlands were commonplace in early Renaissance painting, acting to signal the painter’s sophisticated awareness of classical iconography....
...Rarely have I so viscerally ached with a character, and yet Boyt’s wit beams shafts of light through the cracks of pain....
...It is almost entirely built of wood: laminated strips of beech made in Germany that not only form the walls, but the columns and beams....
...But, raked by the beam of replayed movies, that quintessence is enough to give the illusion of continued life....
...Inspired by local fishing and hunting lodges, the house, as expected, features a great deal of wood: walls are covered in pine cladding, ceiling beams are left visible, modern kitchen appliances are hidden...
...Suddenly, screens flanking one side of the runway beam in pre-taped video of the A-listers who could not travel to Paris: Jennifer Lopez, Anna Wintour, Kris Jenner, Cindy Crawford, Britney Spears, Usher....
...Likewise references from landlords I beam with pride as they recall impeccable behaviour, give or take an adorable breach or two....
...In the grander sitting room upstairs, trompe-l’oeil fluted columns and floral garlands surround pastorals, under a spectacular ceiling whose timber beams and supports are covered in rich botanical and scroll...
...He involuntarily garlands the back seat with aeroplane food. I look at Mohammad, wide-eyed and rueful — as if I had run over his dog. He is unblinking. Breezy. “Don’t worry,” he says....
...It was lit from a central roof lantern through which a beam of strong light pierced the bookish gloom of the interior....
...’s girlish dew and Joan Crawford’s highly arch pencilled-in brows....
...Tauriainen is clearly in the former camp: she beams as she talks about her work with bears and shudders at the mention of bear pâté, a regional delicacy....
...The formal parlour is enchanting, with a frieze of cherubs and garlands in a blue and pink ceiling mural – a rarity in Texas, much less in any casual beach community....
...Doesn’t the originality of it all make you want to beam? But that’s mean, and the whole point of this trend is not to be....
...He has spent the day at King Abdullah’s ranch – a kind of Crawford in the desert....
...Leslie Crawford is the FT’s bureau chief in Madrid....
...From Reynolds to Garland, from DeMille to Hitchcock to Lynch, where would we be without curtains?...
...Leslie Crawford is the FT’s Madrid bureau chief. Whose side are they on?...
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