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...What A Grade II-listed Georgian house on a 22-acre plot....
...The new Matterhorn Glacier Ride II, which is the highest cable car in the Alps, means you can now go from Cervinia to Zermatt on foot,” says Rollason....
...If the public areas evoke a certain splendour, upstairs the 132 rooms and suites are intended to feel residential, more like apartments than hotel rooms, says Bernerd....
...“We plan to trade up the food hall of Selfridges,” Berninghaus said....
...*-listed former Martin’s Bank Building, a seven-storey, 207,000 sq ft behemoth that sits next to Liverpool City Hall — into Grade A offices with co-working and event areas....
...The two-storey, two-bedroom apartment, clad in polished, ginger-hued maple wood, has all the chic of a sleek 1920s cruise liner....
...But there was a gulf between aspirations and reality....
...the Great Pyramid of Giza (itself visible from the museum’s panoramic windows); the Merneptah Pillar; and, in the soaring atrium, the 3,200-year-old, 83-tonne, 11-metre-high monumental figure of Ramesses II...
...A 16-month delay followed the death of George VI on February 6 1952, and the coronation of his daughter Elizabeth II on June 3 1953....
...Above that sit 56 apartments priced from €17.5mn....
...The Accession Council ritual, in the state apartments of St James’s Palace, last took place in 1952 behind closed doors....
...In Block II, I check in to a bright and spacious loft apartment in a section that’s become a spa hotel, the Solitaire, with hints of Scandi design and a bathroom almost as big as a squash court....
...My favourite inhabitant, though, is Alexis, Baron de Redé, a mid-20th-century aesthete who lived in a grand apartment here from 1949 until his death in 2004....
...Sivill House recently gained Grade II listing; you can buy a tea towel printed with its facade....
...My one-bedroom apartment was owned by Nikolai, my landlord as well as my guide....
...To one side, there is a sofa where he frequently sleeps, even though his bedroom is down the hall....
...Overlooking Plaza Isabel II, it’s right opposite the Teatro Real opera house and a couple of minutes away from the royal palace....
...In addition to writing music for the concert hall, she has worked with dancers, artists, film-makers and architects, on projects ranging from an immersive soundtrack for Antoni Gaudí’s Casa Batlló in Barcelona...
...On my last night in Cairo, I dine with the cultural conservationists Mounir and Laila Neamatalla at their family apartment overlooking the Nile....
...On a early summer afternoon I was practically alone in the Museu Monografico’s airy halls....
...A current resident, Ilona Barber, 71, says she waited three years for one of the coveted apartments after struggling to survive on her state pension....
...For Angst II, in 2016, she filled the main hall of the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin with white fog and ran a tightrope across it, with groups of performers staging apparently spontaneous tableaux in different...
...The Grade II-listed, seven-storey building at 7 St James’s Square was built in the 1670s and remodelled by Edward Lutyens in 1911....
...Home before that was a Grade II-listed townhouse in Barnes....
...If you have a question for Luke about design and stylish living, email him at lukeedward.hall@ft.com....
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