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...For the binding – which joins the guitar’s top to its sides – there’s Hawaiian koa or tiger myrtle from Tasmania....
...Robertson (Ryland Peters & Small, £35) De Le Cuona hand-carved Suar wood Kettle Side Table No 6, £1,002 De Le Cuona palm wood Engraved Coconut Bowl, £198 Franco-Indian lifestyle brand Jamini’s natural...
...A few choice furnishings have been updated from ’80s staid to 21st-century low-slung: spacious armoires gleam with polished metal and leather linings; pretty encaustic tiles adorn the bathrooms....
...It is easy to find a fancy armoire, but I like the humbler versions. Hampshire’s Pappilon is selling a very elegant 19th-century French provincial armoire with original ochre paintwork....
...“It was rare koa wood from Hawaii and something really close to his heart,” he says. “He wasn’t just ordering a car, he was commissioning a piece of art. Technically it was incredibly difficult.”...
...“I vaguely remember that we inherited all the furniture from the hotel,” Harumi says of the surviving furniture, which runs the gamut from dining chairs to a vast armoire that, together with an ornately...
...The Florence-based company started out more than 70 years ago building high-end cabinetry but pivoted towards safe rooms after trialling strongboxes in its armoires....
...Directly opposite the palace was its nemesis: Moku’aikua Church, built by the first American missionaries to come to the Big Island, walls of lava and coral, pews inside of gleaming koa wood, but casting...
...Cold-smoke the fillets using apple wood chips for about half an hour. Then chill....
...Whether made in the US, Jamaica, the Democratic Republic of Congo or South Africa, whether within the confines of domestic interiors, out in the woods or on the street, Lawson’s carefully lit portraits lend...
...The interiors feature local lava stone and koa wood. Why Owners can learn to canoe, paddle board and snorkel with tropical fish at the resort’s water sports centre....
...The architect’s home, an elegant dark-wood-lined house at the end of a landscaped lane near the lush Wissahickon Creek outside Philadelphia, is, according to Scott Brown, the only Art Nouveau house in the...
...Coming soon: non-poached, wind-fallen Koa wood from Hawaii and shed horn from Ankole cows in Uganda....
...You can wander in at any time if you’re staying at the hotel: two starkly furnished rooms, with an armoire, fireplace, a small four-poster and a trapdoor in the floor, through which Rousseau used to escape...
...Beautifully carved armoires, such as those found at the twice-yearly antiques fair at L’Isle sur la Sorgue, were often given as wedding gifts....
...One wooden console, the ngali, (€850) has drawers covered in leather made by the nomadic Tuareg people from neighbouring Mali while a wooden armoire, the dogon, (€2,300) is simple and contemporary in shape...
...And all these trees have come to be represented in architecture, the roots of which are in wood....
...He was the first to combine marquetry panels with lavish inlays of brass or tin in wood or tortoiseshell....
...www.fm-b-afl.com Steven Edrich Furniture hand-made from solid wood “has its own personality,” says Loire-based Steven Edrich....
...Karen Howes of London-based interior designers Taylor Howes, agrees, adding: “We often design armoires that look like pieces of furniture but house printers and files.”...
...Their current offerings include an armoire painted in fluorescent orange and yellow by pop artist Ellen van de Graaf and a late 19th century French walnut armoire lacquered in high-gloss white with wispy...
...They focused on the Boulle armoire “as an icon for the entire Wallace Collection” and a “metaphor for our ambition to stimulate [a market for] the ‘unique piece’.”...
...Cypress was also used for hand-crafted furniture, including the armoires that took the place of closets in Creole country....
...Yet it is sitting in a 60,000 sq ft building full of overstuffed couches and imposing armoires in High Point, North Carolina, one of the least urbane locales in America....
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