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...Why The photographer Lord Snowdon described the house as a “late Regency haven of human-scale architecture” and its pretty, Italianate courtyard garden adds to the air of privacy in a city setting....
...At a Christie’s sale in Paris late last year, a painted “Etruscan” armchair that once adorned Marie Antoinette’s apartments at Versailles, still retaining its original blue and grey pigment, hammered down...
...It can have a reputation for being an exclusive yet rather staid neighbourhood of fine garden squares and Regency-style stucco houses....
...“The marble-topped table from La Gonette is something that I particularly cherish,” he continues, referring to a Regency rosewood dining table (estimate £3,000-£5,000)....
...St John’s Wood is known for its Regency white stucco villas and red-brick Victorian and Edwardian mansion buildings....
...There’s the yet-to-be-upholstered George III giltwood sofa draped with fragments of Spitalfields silk; the hexagonal Regency faux-bamboo chair (“faux bamboo is my obsession”); and the magical stool fashioned...
...A year after the shooting at the Regency Hotel, the violence was still raging....
...Why On the lower ground-floor level is a self-contained one-bedroom apartment, which has its own street entrance....
...In January, they left the west London suburb of Ealing and moved into a Grade II-listed, five-bedroom town house by the Regency master builder Thomas Cubitt....
...What A renovated Regency town house with five bedrooms, three bathrooms and a walled courtyard garden. Two of its bedrooms are located in a self-contained annexe....
...They sit well with older antiques and look wonderful as desk or dining chairs — as fashion stylist Giovanna Battaglia’s Stockholm apartment can attest....
...The development includes 29 homes, apartments and town houses....
...“I’m totally into it,” wrote the fashion designer Jenna Lyons on an Instagram post of the shelves in her New York apartment....
...He and Byrnes spend summers on the Mediterranean, winters in Gstaad, and the weekends in between at their Lisbon apartment....
...regeneration of the former Preston Barracks site at Moulsecoomb will include Optivo’s Home X, a scheme of 369 new homes with affordable housing and shared ownership options, prices from £285,000 for a one-bed apartment...
...Coulter notes a rise in sixtysomething country-dwellers buying new-build apartments in London....
...The Regency Bath House was demolished in 1958 to build Reed House (by Lewis Solomon, Kaye & Partners), which housed first Martins Bank and then the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, as well as, reputedly...
...The industrious Andrew Taylor has set his prizewinning novels in 18th-century England and America, the Regency period, 1930s London and the 1950s Welsh Borders....
...A Regency pine side table with a few knocks and bashes topped with a contemporary table lamp in a hallway with pristine lines? A heavenly mix....
...I am in the market for a tall, spindly one from the Regency period, which I will put in our bathroom in the country....
...The house is on one of the best-preserved Regency terraces in the capital, but even at £3,449 per sq ft, it is a relative steal compared with some of the trophy homes that overlook Hyde Park — it is less...
...To avoid this, I mix mid-century designs with those from other decades: a modernist rosewood desk with a painted Regency chair beneath an ornate gilt mirror, say....
...What A five-bedroom Regency town house with a gym overlooking Park Square Garden....
...The transformation of this part of London is underlined as you pass the former warehouses and industrial buildings of King’s Cross — now converted into upmarket apartments and boutiques....
...But just inhabiting a beautiful street can bring joy, as McCloud, who lives in a Regency townhouse in Bath in the west of England — noted for its Royal Crescent of townhouses — points out....
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