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...“We cashed in part of our pension and mortgaged our house in order to make the plant library and the 800sq ft orchard barn,” says Tom of the green oak-clad, carbon-sink building at the centre of the site...
...“Oscar became conscious of the world in here,” says Martin Burns, creative director of Oscar Wilde House, who guides me through its Georgian rooms, replete with corniced ceilings, oak floors, mahogany furnishings...
...Pear syrup with just enough freshness.£13.50 a half Tesco Philippe et Jacques Guignard, L’Ouest de Lamothe Guignard 2010 Sauternes (13.5%)A snip unearthed by buyer Jane Masters MW....
...A four-bedroom apartment in Oak Bay, a prestigious residential complex, is now priced at Rmb33mn, down from Rmb38mn in March....
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...“They’re so aromatic,” says Renegade’s environmental and marketing manager Jane Nurse. “They just sing.” The first pair of lightly aged rums, Études, was recently released....
...The evergreen oak tree’s leaves are collected with the mower, which means that they are ready-chopped and mixed with grass cuttings, and therefore rot readily....
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...In the Oak Room next door, she has referenced the ornate wood panelling installed by the sixth Duke of Devonshire in the 19th century, creating tables and stools from bog oak....
...Its garden is a relaxed mix of semi-formal beds with herbs, wild-flower areas, woven hazel and Welsh oak gates and garden furniture....
...Working from a converted cow shed in the garden, Wheeler began forging her own sculptural foliage candle sconces and chandeliers; brass renderings of the leaves fallen from an old oak tree outside her studio...
...Early in the morning it’s quiet, attended by only a couple of emissaries from the 21st century: a lone tourist taking snaps of the heavy oak doors, and the insistent grind of a pneumatic drill....
...She was riding a bicycle made in western Europe, but I needed no guide: I could leave by following the English oak trees and retracing my route to the gate....
...Fifty years on, the overwhelming majority of watches made by Audemars Piguet are either Royal Oaks or the bulkier Royal Oak Offshore....
...As a folly-maker, his first commission came from glass artist and editor Jane Dorner, a friend....
...At Ben Bridge Jeweler in a mall in Thousand Oaks, California, I found only empty cabinets and an apologetic salesperson. They didn’t have any Oyster Perpetuals, he said with a shrug....
...Sitting in one of its oak-panelled rooms in Chancery Lane, Boyce says: “I’ve long spoken about the fact . . . that I would like to leave the profession more diverse and inclusive than the one I entered....
...The black-stained oak table and stools have a minimalist appearance, “in conflict with the intricately carved, mahogany Chippendale furniture of the estate”, says Collins....
...I recall the oaks I walked past in late spring as John Dashwood’s wife callously talked him out of obeying his father’s last request to settle a generous sum on his stepmother and half-sisters in Sense and...
...“We had ours made in solid oak with brushed-steel brackets.” It’s a level of detail for a generation who grew up with good design....
...Consequently, their ongoing Wild Minimalism collection is a modern take on archaic forms in roughly hewn, almost black reclaimed oak....
...Such, for instance, is the vegetable production known as the truffle . . . ” Jane Owen is an FT Weekend contributing editor....
...It’s an idea that curator Jane Withers calls “super vernaculars” in her theme for Ljubljana’s Bio27 design biennial from May, showing Laposse’s venture, among others....
...Wine critic Jane Anson says Cheval Blanc, one of the top wine houses, normally relies heavily on the increasingly alcoholic merlot grape....
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