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...One of them is banging on the glass restlessly with its flipper....
...William Dalrymple was a guest of La Dimora dei Semplici (see details below) and The Thinking Traveller (thethinkingtraveller.com) Find out about our latest stories first — follow FTWeekend on Instagram...
...Like those of many post-industrial English communities, Barnsley’s town centre is still graced by the relic of a bygone municipal era — a handsome Grade II-listed town hall, from which its local government...
...In the summer of 2019, Odey took Olivia to lunch at La Petite Maison, where she said he refilled her glass repeatedly until she was drunk....
...The strap is made from green fire hose used by Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service, with the brand’s signature ‘In case of fire break glass’ case back also green....
...Gellért on the Buda side is also hugely popular, an Art Nouveau palace of stained glass and pillared pools, the main one with a swooping glass roof....
...William Thuillier is one of those keen amateurs....
...Every surface gleams with light bouncing off the glass, mirrors and marble....
...Periodically, the Queen Mother would take an ice cube from the bucket at her elbow and drop it into her glass to make the bubbles fizz....
...(who gave it to his rumoured lover, Piers Gaveston); the Black Prince (father of Richard II); and Lord Williams of Thame, who built the current house on the medieval site....
...On Monday, there were some smiles, some furrowed brows — including from William, the Prince of Wales, as he walked behind the coffin....
...While Estelle Manor’s Grade II-listed, 1908 neo-Jacobean Hall is about as grand as they come, the nothing-to-prove maxim will hold here, too....
...William Dalrymple Borobudur, Java My travel discovery of the year was unquestionably Borobudur in Java, the largest and most spectacular Buddhist temple in the world....
...It features diamond-encrusted motifs inspired by the Grade II-listed gallery’s glass ceiling domes, while the gems — aquamarines, morganites, kunzites, green beryl and yellow beryl — reflect colours in Pre-Raphaelite...
...There are few better examples than Albert Frey’s own residence, Frey House II, in Palm Springs, its bedroom walls replaced by sliding glass doors and vivid yellow curtains, their pleats flapping in the desert...
...There’s nowhere better to appreciate its beauty than this glass-walled cabin....
...Housed on the top floor of the 18th-century Grade II listed former courthouse, the bright and airy dining room is set amid grand arched windows, sage green walls and crumbling pink plaster, lending an air...
...When he completed his “Frog Service” dinner set for Empress Catherine II of Russia, he sold tickets for exclusive viewings....
...As well as owning a series of her drawings, the client has just commissioned Roissetter to make a stained-glass window that will be incorporated into the panelling of a doorway....
...Why The drawing room overlooks the lake and has an original marble fireplace by William Kent, the 18th-century architect of Chiswick House and Houghton Hall....
...It became a style all of its own and a much-admired work of London Post Modernism, listed at grade II* in its own right. The new parliamentary spaces are not nearly as ambitious....
...British climber William Cecil Slingsby, the first man to the top of most of the surrounding eminences, called the view from up there “the proudest in Europe”....
...King William III and Queen Mary II are resplendent at its centre, with the king’s foot trampling a figure representing tyranny and arbitrary power — and bearing a striking resemblance to King Louis XIV of...
...William Dalrymple was the guest of Steppes Travel....
...We have a William Turnbull, ‘Idol 4’ bronze (1956), which is only one of four. The other is at the Tate Britain.” One wonders how generous LVMH was with these sorts of acquisitions?...
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