Hints and tips:
...Chin Chin, the go-to white wine for the image conscious, has a half-dressed red demon on its label....
...I wanted to cast a pebble in the water and see where the ripples take you.”...
...Near Xi’an, the local equivalent of stone-baked pizza is “stone breads” (shizi mo), made by laying circles of seasoned dough over hot pebbles until they bake crisp and golden....
...More than 50 craftsmen came from Suzhou, China, to construct the Ming Dynasty garden, bringing with them nan, camphor and ginkgo wood, handmade tiles and stone pebbles....
...Sometimes called “the Louvre of the Pebble” because of Jim Ede’s collection of found spherical stones displayed on a downstairs table in a spiral shape, Kettle’s Yard espouses a very particular mixture of...
...Gerats had suspended a moon-white fragment of reindeer antler from a string above the table....
...The best beaches are known to require a bit of trail-tramping, but reward with stretches of pebble that are frequently near-empty, even in summer....
...in parcel-like bands of white gold....
...On a special hill, Savage used his fine white sand as a setting for groupings of weathered rocks in a dry garden. He plainly had Kyoto’s great Ryoan-ji garden in mind....
...The dial is also a little different because the first dials were not pure white but, as we say in French, blanc cassé; the new one is more creamy.”...
...The contrast between this clinical white room and the dark density of the construction site is stark. In that gap lies an entire world....
...In the mornings I’ll hit White Beach, the same beach I’ve been going to for 10 years. It’s really no frills, just a pebble shore with plastic sun loungers and a restaurant in a basic concrete building....
...So it was that the big, blobby dots on the packaging of the sliced white loaf Wonder Bread underwent a primary-coloured, Swinging Sixties revamp in Corita’s photographs and prints....
...Hay dishcloths in pink, white, blue and green, from £13 for set of three...
...My top-floor room had a deep-plush rug with an abstracted palm design across it, textured turquoise lacquer panelling behind the bookshelves and — pure heaven — a wide white-on-white terrace, made totally...
...If you are a collector of objects like decorative eggs, beautifully shaped pebbles, snuff boxes – whatever it is – mass them together on one table....
...Tranches of loin, translucent and incarnadine, are pebble-dashed with rough-crushed peppercorns....
...On a cloudy day, the frosted skylights sift a pewter light into pale interiors where Robert Ryman’s white-on-white canvases, Larry Bell’s upright sheets of glass, and Melvin Edwards’ barbed-wire scrims coexist...
...Days begin with yoga and meditation, followed by monastery visits, picnics, biking and white-water rafting along the Zanskar and Indus rivers, and of course walking....
...Ethan’s prodigious talent is fostered by Diamond crucially because he can “pass” for white in the wider world....
...Congolese soldiers rebelled against their Belgian commanders and turned on the white settlers. De Lay and his wife fled....
...His solution was a subtle design that reconciles the garden as part of a civic landscape, introducing surfaces of thousands of black and white pebbles that were individually selected from around Mount Etna...
...But it’s the knicky-knacky things that offer more fragments of personal colour: the scuffed white pans all stained with use, the amber-handle desk scissors, the beach shells and pebbles (estimate $100-$200...
...After leaving the busy ferry port, you’ll soon be walking along the tops of the iconic White Cliffs of Dover....
...Local art curated by Taglialatella Galleries is found throughout the hotel, including a geometric coloured-pebble mural on the roof with interlocking forms and shapes to signify the city’s multicultural...
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