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...instant access to Hyde Park, alongside broadened pavements and elegant planting that will provide a seductive pedestrian route from Hyde Park to Notting Hill....
...Even the palazzo’s original small kitchen has been incorporated into the restaurant, as a space hosting a marble chef’s table that seats 12....
...The building has solid oak doors, bay windows, light-flooded rooms and assistive tech by each apartment’s front door....
...These furnished the Elysée apartments so President Georges Pompidou could wow visiting heads of state with France’s style prowess — soft power rendered in three dimensions....
...The grace-and-favour home of UK prime ministers since 1732, it’s a modest-looking, brick-fronted terrace in a cul-de-sac, whose distinctive panelled oak door, painted Goth-nail-polish black and crowned by...
...There are 120 hotel rooms, 85 residential apartments, nine restaurants, three bars, a spa and gym....
...Up the winding staircases are five stylish bedrooms and a great hall with a fireplace you could park the Volvo in....
...Marino, who started out his practice as a residential designer (Andy Warhol, Agnelli and Yves Saint Laurent were clients), was given carte blanche to design a Marino apartment....
...D’une île (“From an island”) is true to its name: the 17th-century buildings look as though they’re floating above the Perche natural park. Indeed, nature seems to dictate everything here....
...Corridors lead to several smaller spaces and a grand library with oak counters containing an archive of 600 drawings....
...Judging by our immediate surroundings – a chef’s kitchen finished in gleaming sycamore; a foyer-sized master wardrobe with leather detailing – the apartments, which range from one to five bedrooms and share...
...It’s also fair to say that Tignes Val Claret, a hillside cluster of big brown apartment blocks, was never known for its architectural merits....
...My room was in a modern, minimalist style — white and cream fabrics, which pop against all that dark oak....
...It’s a very pleasant ride, chugging past allotments and through thin forests of oak and beech, dappled with sunlight and laced with footpaths....
...McKeever gave me access to EquinEdge, and I fired it up one night in my apartment. I also deposited $100 on a betting site and pulled up a multicast of live races around the country....
...The last time I interviewed property tycoons Nick and Christian Candy together was over a game of Monopoly at One Hyde Park, their then newly built luxury apartments in Knightsbridge, London....
...She has smoothed surfaces, incorporated structure and layered in material and chromatic softness – but only as much as is absolutely necessary....
...They’ve incorporated Egyptian farming techniques at their farm near Syracuse, and they produce some of the best eggplant that I’ve tasted....
...In Cumbria, swill basket-maker Lorna Singleton coppices her oak from surrounding woodlands — a centuries-old practice that encourages growth and allows light into the forest floor, boosting biodiversity....
...It is known for its protected natural park, reclaimed marshes, and low-lying hills or poggi....
...The main stadium and a smaller, second one sprawl over a 90,000 sq m site by the south-east corner of Yoyogi Park, a vast green oasis in the heart of the city....
...In this underlit room of warm wooden colours and eight-metre ceilings, almost everybody striding along the oak floors looks beautiful....
...(Twin Oaks in Virginia celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2017.)...
...Apartment blocks and sunloungers are not my thing and this beach, even in very early June, is already too crowded for my liking....
...Out in the parks and gardens the horse chestnuts were in luxuriant bloom....
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