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...The body of a grand piano hangs over my head as I descend the stairs from the first to the ground floor in Frank Lloyd Wright’s former home in Oak Park, Illinois, just outside Chicago....
...Stein points out that Chicago’s skyscrapers are mostly protected from Lake Michigan by the “buffer zone” of its large lakeside parks....
...The one Romagna producer offered a couple of lively reds based on old Sangiovese vines aged in concrete rather than oak, with thoroughly contemporary results, as well as an extraordinary oak-aged Sauvignon...
...Khairy TourkProfessor of Economics, Stuart School of Business, Illinois Institute of TechnologyChicago, IL, US...
...Close to the city of Chengdu, the Laizhou Distillery, which fills a vast industrial park, is an example of Chinese whisky produced on a larger scale and at a lower price point....
...Who Jameson Sotheby’s International Realty House, Lincoln Park, $4.6mn Where On N Lincoln Park West, right next to the park and about 20 minutes by foot from the shore of Lake Michigan....
...A retail park can be a better place to see these birds than the “heaths and hedgerows” tipped in field guides....
...Walking into the circular space of Southfield is like entering the belly of a giant tree – the walls are mighty stacked boughs that Goldsworthy collected from windfallen oak trees....
...“The president-elect told Dick that he wanted the speech to have the same rhythm as the one Lincoln had delivered in Illinois right before he headed to the White House a century earlier....
...Nearby is Andy Goldsworthy’s subterranean room with its domed roof of seemingly woven logs, a place with a dark, almost fungal intensity that could not be more different (“Oak Room”, 2009)....
...“Oscar became conscious of the world in here,” says Martin Burns, creative director of Oscar Wilde House, who guides me through its Georgian rooms, replete with corniced ceilings, oak floors, mahogany furnishings...
...I admired the beauty of the patterns in Indian mahogany and in lengths of local oak. The edges have been cut unevenly to leave a rift between the two halves when laid horizontally....
...“Trees are fundamental,” says Charlotte Gyllenhammar, whose 1993 Die For You, an oak weighing nearly two tonnes hanging above Stockholm’s equivalent of London’s Oxford Street, is being reprised in its 30th...
...Other plants with allegorical value fill our park – oak trees, cypresses, as well as Rome’s symbol, the pine, Pinus pinea....
...I meet with Audemars Piguet a lot, as I collaborated with the team on a limited-edition Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar for China in 2020....
...We are two acorns — but it also references the oak trees on the estate and the wooden whisky casks.”...
...The trees are grouped in general species, pines, limes, acers, including the rare big-leaved maple, and oaks, including Sargent’s oak, a cross between an English oak and a chestnut oak that happened to occur...
...In recent years, hundreds of previously unknown UGRR sites have been authenticated and linked in the US National Park Service’s “Network to Freedom”....
...I finally tore them away for a trip to the dog park – to which the hotel had helpfully provided a map, along with a list of dog-friendly restaurants....
...€400 A tasteful Tokyo stay in a hot-spring suburb Tama, a suburban city in the western reaches of Tokyo stretching over into Kanagawa Prefecture, is probably best known for Sanrio Puroland, the theme park...
...the critically acclaimed cocktail bar and restaurant Not so good for: Bedroom decor is a bit uninspired, but we’re nitpicking FYI: The hotel’s location is ideal for exploring the waterfront, Stanley Park...
...So the Green Park debut of Kwānt, a venture from former Savoy head bartender Erik Lorincz, is as surprising as it is exciting....
...Holkham is a good example — the estate has farming and commercial tenants, a caravan park, a hotel and restaurant and cafés....
...“Just wheel them through reception and you can park them in the bar,” said the manager, like no hotel manager in the history of hospitality, ever. Clearly, we had lucked out....
...Further uptown, amid the bristling scrum of pencil-thin supertalls that now create a fence for the southern edge of Central Park, by far the finest is Rafael Viñoly’s 432 Park Avenue, a simple, reductive...
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