Hints and tips:
...£95 Handmade by Venetian artisans using traditional marbling techniques. cabanamagazine.com Valerie double vanity unit by Soho Home, £6,995 This ash burl veneer unit comes with an Arabescato Corchia marble...
...mytheresa.com Memphis Milano wood, laminate and painted-metal Hollywood side table, €5,100 The Elder Statesman cashmere Morph Striped pillow, £388, net-a-porter.com Louis Vuitton Murano glass, Carrara marble...
...The family spend most of their time in the open-plan kitchen-dining area – either at the table, constructed from reclaimed Spanish shutters battened together to create a generous surface, or around the marble-topped...
...Upstairs, the tiles of De Marchi Verona ripple like water against mirrored surfaces....
...What’s better than real marble? Fake marble, of course! One last thought on timber: combining with tiles is a brilliant thing: a painted surround with Delft tiles always gets a thumbs up from me....
...Firms that have shorted the stock include London-based Marble Bar, CapeView Capital and Kuvari Partners....
...On marble and linen-covered countertops, chefs carved chateaubriand, mixed tuna tartare and served seafood on ice....
...Splashbacks and panels — which she ships across the world — are made using ceramics and glass, the position of each tile plotted on her intricate, jigsaw-like drawings....
...using bare marble in much of the building....
...The decor is pure chic, thanks to Charles’s penchant for pattern, marbles and groovy furniture that hew midcentury and colourful....
...Homage is paid throughout to the building’s art deco roots: pastel-sorbet tones and lots of shining nickel detailing in the lobby-bar; lovely shell-shaped marble tile work in the bathrooms....
...Jamb’s art deco style ‘Astor’ chimneypiece in black marble and onyx lends deeply glamorous Soanian drama to the drawing room, £27,500 + VAT....
...The duo’s first creative step in the city was an exhibition in the historical Graça Convent, their pared-back contemporary designs surrounded by ornate wall panels and patterned marble floors....
...Behind the Gothic facade, a custom-built kitchen features Calacatta marble worktops and opens out on to a courtyard garden....
...Beds are plush and Canadian king-size, while the chic bathrooms, designed with moody dark marble, have enormous rainfall showers and toiletries from La Bottega (some have freestanding bathtubs too.)....
...In the hotel itself, the suites flowed like high-spec apartments: antique desks, minibars in lacquered oriental cabinets, proper kitchens with tile floors and gallery-hung walls....
...Inside, he maintained a palace decorated with superb Islamic tile work. Here he kept his harem and eunuchs, as well as his celebrated troop of Saracen girls who danced on top of rolling balls....
...slippers and a full-length car coat in “the most garish yellow and green and blue and red plaid”, a memory cemented by the way the coat completely cushioned her fall when she slipped on the building’s worn marble...
...“It has such strong parallels with marble,” she says, adding: “The fact that I have taken something fluid from the sea and transformed it into something solid and rock-like, I find quite poetic.”...
...matching bedding and toys available. lordsandlabradors.co.uk Hang It All hooks by Vitra, £265 The 1953 design by Charles and Ray Eames comes in various colours and finishes (there is even a far pricier marble...
...Where we had to see kitchen equipment, I made sure this was beautiful too: a copper-clad sink, brass taps, mottled Balineum tiles and a large range cooker with marble splashback....
..., mirrors and tiles....
...In one of the main sitting rooms, a reflective gold triptych by Panayiotou complements the Islamic-patterned tiles; another, also covered in Nureyev’s tiles, features a joyful portrait of Fiorucci and Russo...
...Now he lives there with his family in rooms lined in exquisite Portuguese tiles....
...Why Designed in the Spanish style, this house opens into a double-height entrance hall with a spiral staircase, and features dark wood carpentry, marble floors and terracotta-red roof tiles....
International Edition