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...La Laguna’s Unesco World Heritage-grade old town, as presented by my guide Felix de la Rosa, is full of mighty colonial mansions, their dour volcanic-basalt facades enlivened with pastel stucco and towering...
...Among my top picks are Santa María del Naranco, in a meadow high above Oviedo, built for King Ramiro I in the mid-ninth century, and San Julián de los Prados, whose stucco walls are covered in paintings....
...You might not guess it at first sight, given all the curvilinear stucco architecture has (wisely) been left unaltered....
...modern, or full-on luxury: the flagstones in the breakfast courtyard are a bit wonky, and the rooms are spare and sunny rather than sumptuous (though all have their own terrace or balcony) – think white stucco...
...We are suspended, on the outskirts of LA, far from the madding crowd....
...Lower offers are now being made on properties below £1mn, the tranche of the market most affected by interest rates, says Andrew La’Personne of agent Marsh & Parsons after mortgage rates rose in the autumn...
...More of a small citadel than a hotel, the flagship Shangri-La comprises the Tower, Garden and Valley Wings....
...That its flushed pink stucco facade recalls that of its sister property, the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc on the French Riviera, can’t hurt either....
...What A six-bedroom, white stucco villa with a four-bedroom guest house in 6 acres of grounds. Built in 1969, the villa has distinctive curved walls and a stone path leading to a private beach....
...Like Cadaqués, Begur has links with Cuba: local émigrés made their fortunes exporting tobacco, flour, and cork, and built grand, stucco-adorned houses with wrought-iron balconies and cloistered gardens on...
...Meanwhile, inside, an Italian father-and-son team from Italy spent an entire year applying Venetian stucco and hand-run plaster mouldings throughout the interiors....
...La Serenissima acquired the city in 1428 — two years after Brescia entered the republic — ruling both settlements until Venice fell in 1797....
...Who cares if you don’t have the “correct” ceiling heights and stucco plasterwork? (How many of us do?) Create your own fantasy!...
...Rooms and suites: 25 Spa: None Restaurant: Enoteca La Torre, adjacent to the property’s converted greenhouse, is all early-20th-century elegance, from the tall mullioned-glass doors to the frothy cornices...
...And for all their variety, each city has its monomaniacs: Westside jingoists who never cross the Interstate 405, Belgravians who are lost outside their stucco quarter....
...Drumming up business in Los Angeles, a British architect I know was advised by locals to stress the London and not the LA address on his company card....
...It’s past the 100-day mark of lockdown life in LA, and we talk about being holed up at home....
...Stephen C Lee La Habra, CA, US...
...The thing I’m eyeing next is a John Woolf house in LA....
.../ From Tiffany Brenninkmeijer, Lucerne, Switzerland My FT’s plastic wrap is a double bonus / From Stephen C Lee, La Habra, CA, US...
...Bright wintry light illuminated the stucco stalactites of the Salón de los Embajadores, and swelled the oranges ripening in the Generalife palace gardens....
...how to ‘show’ Los Angeles to a visitor,” Christopher Isherwood confessed in Exhumations, “perhaps the best plan would be to drive quite aimlessly, this way and that, following the wide streets of little stucco...
...It is surrounded by woods and overlooked by La Colombaia, the deeply atmospheric (and now sadly abandoned) villa once occupied by the director Luchino Visconti....
...They have come in many forms: the tall stucco terraces of Notting Hill, the brownstones of Brooklyn, the elegant conjoined homes of Saint-Germain-des-Prés....
...The Marmorino stucco walls are painted a dark grey and the conceptual artwork by Jannis Kounellis that hangs near the front door is really welcoming – it has a formal yet emotional beauty....
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