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...Stay: For tradition’s sake book at The Grand Hotel in Oslo (grand.no, from about €295) where the suites bear names like Ibsen and Nobel, but inside it’s a contemporary showcase....
...And his style is sometimes a little grand....
...Even among Britain’s grand country houses, Elveden Hall is exceptional....
...The effect of stone and fabric finishes is rendered with paint across the walls of the sitting room and entrance hall....
...The city’s galleries, concert halls and opera houses’ stunning line-ups for 2024 look set to rival Les Jeux themselves....
...Guests at a Saudi reception held at Paris’ cavernous Grand Palais Éphémère exhibition hall on Tuesday were treated to mocktails, stuffed dates and a curious spectacle to showcase the oil-rich kingdom....
...Dates to be announced; further information here August Sport US Open Tennis’s last Grand Slam tournament of the year....
...February The new Grand Egyptian Museum, Cairo More than two decades in the making, the immense Grand Egyptian Museum is expected to open by the end of February....
...An otherwise deserted corner of the vast exhibition hall was occupied by the stands of Chinese small businesses....
...You could fit Playfair’s original gallery into the entrance hall of the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Eventually, attention did turn to collecting Scottish art, in particular portraiture....
...After each piece, he rose and bowed deeply as if an entire concert hall were applauding, rather than just me....
...Up the winding staircases are five stylish bedrooms and a great hall with a fireplace you could park the Volvo in....
...The museum None of the other three Grand Slam tournaments has the history of Wimbledon, and none has a museum like this....
...Prince played at Bennetts Lane not once but twice during tours of Australia. The second show was a spontaneous three-hour solo set in front of about 70 people that kicked off at 2am....
...Tzu-Chao Chou was elegant and engaging in the dual role of Nutcracker Prince and Sugar Plum cavalier, Beatrice Parma brought crystalline musicality to Lev Ivanov’s grand pas de deux....
...Today Kedleston Hall has some of the finest and grandest Adam interiors in existence....
...The most recent project dates from 2022: “Wall drawing #955, Loopy Doopy (red and purple)” by LeWitt, on show in the Kaldor Hall at the entrance to AGNSW....
...years ago to undertake the expansion and renovation of the farmhouse – or “farmhouse”, more like, actually a clutch of interconnected structures cleverly repurposed to house 10 ensuite bedrooms, a dining hall...
...The traffic — a constant gripe among locals — has come to a near standstill, with roads closed for the Grand Prix....
...and his siblings, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis....
...Summer; rates not yet set; vermelhohotel.com Bhutan Best known for its lodges and camps across southern Africa, &Beyond is opening its first fully owned and managed property in Asia, Punakha River Lodge...
...You don’t want to be caught without at least a few hundred grand of walking around money....
...The preferred option is for a single-level space focused on a grand train hall with a 140m-long atrium between Madison Square Garden and 2 Pennsylvania Plaza, which led to the recent approval of a one-year...
...“What a grand and beautiful lady she was — there was nobody like her!” the Trumps wrote....
...“When I ordered it, I was told that Prince Charles had bought the same design for Highgrove – only his is smaller,” says Nigel Metcalfe of the Victorian Grand Lodge he commissioned from glasshouse specialist...
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