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...More than 50 craftsmen came from Suzhou, China, to construct the Ming Dynasty garden, bringing with them nan, camphor and ginkgo wood, handmade tiles and stone pebbles....
...Designed and built with students from the University of Brighton’s Faculty of Arts, it was fashioned from timber salvaged from a demolished house nearby and insulated with junk, including carpet tiles and...
...Douglas looked as though he’d thrown on something found at the bottom of Sharon Stone’s wardrobe, the morning after the night before....
...An ancient town of steep winding lanes, Gjirokastra’s houses are clustered together, their ash-coloured stone roof tiles like the scales of strange beasts that have clawed their way up the slope to huddle...
...He even took stones and tiles from holiday homes that were being demolished, including slabs from the terraces of John S Kennedy, the railway tycoon....
...“But I’ll use a stone finish — like slate — around the vanity or bath to take the edge off the prettiness,” she says....
...It’s a light-touch glow-up, which started with the stripping back of thick carpets, ceiling tiles and gallons of magnolia. The walls are now painted in apricots, sage greens and indigo blues....
...Are the floors to be stone, tiles, wood or carpet? Your taste might be parquet, but kids wheeling bikes through the house might dictate more practical tiles....
...I gaze up at a sprawling pile clad in stone and larch with multiple terraces, balconies and jauntily angled aluminium struts....
...The crowd flowed between marble pillars, over crimson carpets and under arches skinned in thousands of tiny, mirrored tiles....
...Tasteful window graphics serve as a substitute for displaying watches — which Ellis’s insurance does not allow — and the interior is decorated with pink walls, pink carpets and terrazzo tiles....
...But despite the neglect, Karmely became smitten with the 12-bedroom, eight-and-a-half-bathroom, terracotta tile-topped Renaissance-style villa....
...Additional reporting by Rurika Imahashi, Peggy Ye and Jack Stone Truitt A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on June 20 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...This is a place with a deep history, a venue opened in 1900 by Victorian actor Ellen Terry, in which Charlie Chaplin, the Goons and the young Rolling Stones performed....
...A spiral design with two stones – representing a “pinky promise” for women to support one another – it was worn by Emma Watson, Nicole Kidman and Shailene Woodley on various red carpets before Shiffon even...
...One of the solutions was to bring in natural-inspired wallpaper and create womb-like nooks and niches lined with sustainable Interface carpet tiles that soften the acoustics, so they could feel safe....
...At the farthest end of the beach at Aberdaron we swam over peacock reefs of tiny stones, the dowry of the sea....
...She is perhaps best-known to Londoners as the maker of “Wrapper” (2012), the patterned enamel tiles that envelop Edgware Road Tube station, but anyone looking to pigeonhole this multidisciplinary artist...
...in Ogilvy tartan that runs up the curved stone stairs....
...There are feature walls and courtyards full of subtropical plants, subway tiles, murals and breakfast bars with chrome appliances and vividly coloured Spanish fish tins....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on October 17, 2020. ©2020 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...Hicks’s genius, florid colour combinations, the way he mixed furniture from different decades, geometric carpets with floral curtains, cheap pottery with antiques — I can’t get enough....
...The clue is in the name: the company says on its website that it specialises in “clothing, fabrics, blankets, carpets and stone carvings”....
...The patterned carpets didn’t help with navigation. Oh, those carpets!...
...It is still there in my folks’ house though: it survived both of them, under the fitted carpet. Tough stuff, lino....
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