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...Medvedev says that Russia over the centuries has presented an external appearance of imperial power, vast territory, cathedrals, palaces, high culture, the atomic bomb and space exploration, but “on the...
...Inside the red interiors of the temple, I kneel in front of gold and jade buddhas as Somsack ties a spool of string around a bowl of water, then around me....
...Blondey McCoy The British-Lebanese artist and skateboarder, 25, has skated professionally for brands including Palace and Adidas....
...The Himalayas are so beautiful, and I have bought a lot of things carved in jade and lapis lazuli there. They give me ideas for the decorative objects I make....
...Every bit “as selective as the Summer Palace’s Communist Party School”, the centre ostensibly provides a year-long programme where elite representatives of China’s five officially recognised religions —...
...The leftists were in power, Lisbon was impoverished, palaces were no longer the thing. The family sold up and moved away. For some years the palace served as offices until it was gradually abandoned....
...I was taken around by Thomas Reiner, who’s an artisan floormaker specialising in historical woods – he does all the parquet restorations for museums and palaces there and he made the parquet floors in the...
...I peel off from the group to have tea with him in the private prayer room of the four-storied royal palace in Lo Manthang....
...The pool, lined in jade-green tiles, is shaded by fan palms in the late afternoons; drinks are served in the covered terrace bar next to it, with its groovy 1930s chairs and tables....
...“It’s generally considered that the 18th-century imperial bottles are the finest,” says Page, adding that palace-made stone versions – in jade, but also lapis lazuli, agate and carnelian – began to appear...
..., Singapore Changi Airport, Terminal 1 The airport outpost of the city’s Michelin-starred Crystal Jade Golden Palace serves Chinese food inspired by the Jiangnan region south of the Yangtze River....
...There’s great, goofy humour from Craig Gallivan and his puppet as Olaf the Snowman and a delightful, nimble reindeer Sven (Ashley Birchall rotating with Mikayla Jade)....
...It’s an instantly bucolic place of jade pastures, clunking cowbells and fragrant pine forests, and has been a Dolomite staple since the earliest days of tourism....
...For Brazilian-born Jade Samuels, the move to Fulham from South Kensington three years ago brought extra space but also a welcoming sense of community....
...I particularly love their selection of early tiles, from the 15th and 16th centuries, all azure blues, jade greens and mustards in swirling, kaleidoscopic arrangements....
...Di Mottola, meanwhile, is now in production on the second series of The Great and thinking about how the interior of the palace will change as Catherine becomes more powerful....
...Not least because when you stuck your head under the water, you were in a streaming world of blinding colour: scarlet coral, tangs that had invented yellow, parrot fish actually in dude combo of jade green...
...Some of the details are delightful, such as Jardines’ involvement in the top-secret transport of a 2,000-year-old jade burial suit from Beijing’s Palace Museum to the National Palace Museum in fierce rival...
...They stamped their individual styles on the pediments, arcades, staircases and porticoes of the once-grand palaces, bazaar and warehouses....
...Only the traghetti, a few fishing boats and the odd water taxi plied its jade-hued expanse. But the Accademia is open, the Doge’s Palace as well....
...There followed a risotto in which the rice was speckled through the jade-green, watercress-rich sauce, a generous spoonful of Dorset crab resting on top, bolstered with a punch of horseradish....
...HSBC, which offered Quintessentially’s services to its wealthy Jade account holders, and British Airways, which partnered with the company to promote its services in the first class lounge at Heathrow airport...
...Set in the grounds of a ramshackle palace and orchard on Buyukada, a leafy, traffic-free island haven that acts as a retreat for Istanbul residents and is currently home to six Biennial installations, the...
...them, so I bought a lot of books and read them, studied the jades in the National Palace Museum, and it became clear to me that all of mine were fakes.”...
...Salinas uses the jade and turquoise cascade to evoke the water deities once worshipped at the site....
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