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...Why The property has two charming adjoining libraries, with wooden flooring and book shelves covering the walls....
...What A 2,500 sq ft loft space in a boutique co-op with exposed bricks, wooden beams and columns. The property also has a shared roof terrace....
...Favourite thing A tall wooden bowl made from chestnut takes pride of place on the kitchen island. Ptak says: “I love it because of the natural curves....
...It is shaped in a wooden mould and baked in an oven, making it strong enough to be sanded, sawn and drilled into a collection of chairs, which were acquired by the Design Museum Holon in Israel....
...In whose drawing room is a life-sized wooden cheetah in full gallop as if en route out of the bay window for the garden chicken coop?...
...My wellbeing guru is Pilates instructor Jessie Zalla. She has taught me how important the feet are; they are all-connecting – the legs, the back, the neck, the head....
...Jessie Nelson directs their colourful high jinks with plenty of zip. The wartime setting is mostly incidental....
...Originally from a quiet corner of Hampshire, Jessie and Percival Masters had come with their two small children to the ends of the Earth in order to claim a piece of it as their own....
...The playful English lesson for the French Princess Katharine (a quick-witted Jessie Buckley) is perfectly pitched....
...Now he has turned to the Giro d’Italia, setting out to ride the route of the 1914 event, reputedly the toughest of all time, on a period bike complete with wooden rims....
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