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...In a grand drawing room following on from the hall, Copenhagen-based design studio Christian + Jade’s work forms a table centrepiece....
...There is also a piece of Libyan Desert glass, created some 29mn years ago when an asteroid impact melted the sand ($150,000–$250,000)....
...The basalt rock will help build railways and roads, while the sand is a natural abrasive and will be used for sandblasting....
...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...
...Wind whips through the sand dunes as the holiday resort empties and her days blur into a claustrophobic domesticity....
...Egrets and herons stalk the shallows, where stingrays try to bury themselves in the sand....
...I learnt to scout for sting rays just beneath the sand, and to scan for fish following in their wake....
...A day and a half’s drive north of Nairobi, where a sign says “Loiyangalani 232km”, we had turned off the tarmac to follow a lurching track westwards to Turkana, the “Jade Sea”, the world’s largest desert...
...Salinas uses the jade and turquoise cascade to evoke the water deities once worshipped at the site....
...Others have been drawing a deliberate line in the sand, choosing to focus on ultra high-net worth clients....
...With a wave (and a text message to Andrews), the islanders signalled at us to land in a bay of jade water....
...Beneath my toes the sand was cream-white and the glass-calm water an eye-popping shade of pinky blue, closer in hue to the Caribbean than the dear old Med....
...They include Taylor Wimpey’s Jade Beach in San Pedro, where the second phase has just gone on sale, with two-bedroom flats priced from €500,000....
...We land again on the pristine Suguta sand dunes — an undulating yellow sea ringed by a black volcanic moonscape....
...The manicuring is too tidy, the sand too raked. At lunch, the tinkling of recorded music interferes with the pounding of the surf....
...Set above the Marina Bay Sands casino and hotel complex, it offers arguably the most impressive views of the tiny island nation....
...Everything in between is an electric, cultivated jade. A more jaw-droppingly beautiful place is hard to conceive. Staying there was an intense experience....
...The largest actors in the sector have raised about $20bn to invest in houses, said Jade Rahmani, analyst at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods....
...The £3.6bn Marina Bay Sands, perhaps. Its 2,561 rooms certainly trump a 10-room guest house....
...For those for whom proximity to the sea is more important than privacy, there are also eight thatch-and-adobe bungalows set right on the sand....
...items also catch the eye: a host of precious vessels made for emirs and sultans include a 13th-century Syrian glass flask covered in cartoonish doodles, while a dagger from India damascened with gold and jade...
...The Banyan Tree’s reception courtyard has a half-moon bridge, drawing attention to the lake and pagoda beyond – all framing the distant skyline of Yulong Shan – Jade Dragon Snow Mountain....
...There are wider swards of sand in the Seychelles, more exotic snorkelling in the Red Sea and hotter versions of jerk chicken in the Middle East....
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