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...The feel-good factors here are plentiful: the Green Butler app, which gives guests real-time information on their energy usage, was recently installed in the rooms....
...“They have converted what used to be wooded areas into grassy meadow,” says María Medina Muro, a landscape architect who has worked on other historic parks in Spain....
...The show, watched by Austin Butler, Kate Moss and Demi Moore, was staged at 8pm to catch the glamour of dusk turning to night and the illumination of the Eiffel Tower....
...This works especially well for smaller spaces, says Collorick who also favours salvaged surfaces like reclaimed school lab worktops and old brass taps for butler’s sinks, perched on brick piers....
...But there are also concierges to service any and all business needs, from cars to translators — as well as an excellent Club Lounge, and some of the speediest butler service I’ve ever had....
...He will face competition, however, from Austin Butler, whose performance in Baz Luhrmann’s glitzy Elvis has been the subject of an equally energetic awards campaign....
...Artists featured include Angelica Kauffman, Elizabeth Butler and Laura Knight....
...Founded in 1993 by Adam Hills and Maria Speake, the company is driven by the belief that good materials and well made things are precious....
..., and Kim Kardashian sank one on a recent visit to the capital, although with added Tia Maria and Baileys....
...If it all sounds par for the course to 2022 ears, bear in mind Dixon was already doing this in 2007, back when bath butlers and $82 Kobe burgers in the Maldives were the vanguard of Experiential Luxury....
...Poetry selections by Maria Crawford Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Captained by head butler Jean-Baptiste Crabit, an earnest blue-eyed Frenchman, the team offers much more than unparalleled room service to guests....
...There are also covered patios, a butler’s pantry, a study and a formal dining room....
...As far as casting goes, Austin Butler certainly looks the part, while Tom Hanks seems a sound choice to play the role of Colonel Tom Parker, Presley’s hugely influential manager....
...When Jerry Seinfeld drove Stephen Colbert around in a 1964 Morgan for his show Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, Colbert found the car so eccentrically British he suggested a mouse butler, called Wilfred...
...In short order, even the hotels flying the corporate-behemoth flags were eschewing talk of starchitect-led designs and bath butlers in favour of exceptional access to local culture or community initiatives...
...I last saw Maria 10 years ago....
...a letter to Maria Miller, the MP who chairs the Commons women and equality select committee....
...Other views Nick Butler — Donald Trump’s ambitions for gas have shaky foundations Nick Butler — Kuwait’s strategic problem is location as US interest wanes Neil Hume — Why Asia needs a new thermal coal...
...(NYT) Why $50 oil is now more likely than $100 The FT’s energy expert Nick Butler thinks the spring fever is passing....
...The British Pregnancy Advisory Service said it was “shocked” by the promotion, while Dawn Butler, shadow women and equalities minister, said it was an “appalling decision”....
...The power outages following Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico last year were the world’s second-largest blackout ever, the Rhodium Group has calculated....
...The Economist observed that even before Maria, Puerto Rico’s grid was “a mess”....
...The scale of the devastation in Puerto Rico caused by Hurricane Maria has been becoming apparent this week....
...February 2015: Petrobras chief executive Maria das Graças Silva Foster and five other executives resign....
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