Hints and tips:
...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....
...Even among Britain’s grand country houses, Elveden Hall is exceptional....
...The structure behind the business, how to package my idea – most of that came from him.”...
...The city’s galleries, concert halls and opera houses’ stunning line-ups for 2024 look set to rival Les Jeux themselves....
...March 26 to April 20; further information and tickets here Vienna Philharmonic, Carnegie Hall The orchestra will be performing symphonic works across three nights as conductor Franz Welser-Möst steers...
...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....
...In our different ways, most of us are probably keen to save the planet, to rescue the place from ourselves....
...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....
...BO FYI: Booking is necessary for some of the larger venues, but most places are walk-in with cheap cover charge....
...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....
...Today Kedleston Hall has some of the finest and grandest Adam interiors in existence....
...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...
...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...
...Only with Edward VII in 1910 did a King or Queen lie in state in Westminster Hall. Monarchs of the 18th century preferred more private ceremonies at Windsor Castle....
...“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...
...Bell called this imposing fortress “the most undreamt-of example of the finest Sassanian [sic] art that ever was”....
...“I loved visiting Kime’s shop on Museum Street in Bloomsbury, which felt like a magical treasure trove, stuffed full of the most beautiful things,” says designer and FT columnist Luke Edward Hall, who was...
...And The Prince’s Lodge suite: in a hotel where every room is individually designed, this fifth-floor beauty stands out for sheer originality....
...practices and the silence of an old aristocratic castle seemed somehow to linger around the prince . . . walking erect through a suite of empty halls, where anyone else would seem to bump into unseen corners...
...With the building now repaired and restored, one of the most admirable stories in London film rolls on....
...of the Royal Lodge in Windsor, the mansion bestowed on the prince by the Queen in 2002....
...At its most brutal, it is siblings arguing over who gets it and who can afford it....
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