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...It pours in through the tall windows of the Palazzo Giustinian Brandolini on the Grand Canal, illuminating the exotic papiers peints scenes that cover the dining-room walls....
...“The ceilings were falling apart and the silk wallpaper was water-damaged,” he recalls....
...Here too he encouraged the Arabs to set up their looms for silk weaving and the forges and workshops they needed to manufacture their specialist weaponry, such as bows, arrows and shields....
...Among watercolours based on Alesworth’s photographs are surreally clinical images of “exotic” flora in Milton Keynes....
...Lelièvre and Quenin 1865 The French heritage fabric house is presenting its Quenin 1865 brand – the revival of a historic French company established in 1865 during Lyon’s silk-industry boom....
...In the audience was Otto Wesendonk, a wealthy silk merchant, who with his wife Mathilde lived at the Baur while their villa was being constructed. The Wesendonks became enthusiastic patrons....
...Where skilled artisans of the luxury goods trades once worked with precious and exotic ivory, tortoise-shell, coral, shagreen (shark skin) and boldly figured hardwoods imported from the New World, their...
...Shirley Valentine Duke of York’s Theatre, London The scent and sizzle of hot fat fills the room as Sheridan Smith fries an egg on stage in Shirley Valentine — a mundane moment made exotic and strange by...
...“The brothers must have been quite an exotic spectacle in the Norfolk countryside,” smiles Cholmondeley....
...“A year ago, the renminbi was an exotic currency used only by those working with China....
...There’s a similar post-HoC issue with Edwina Currie, Robert Kilroy-Silk, and Kezia Dugdale (h/t the i paper for putting together a list)....
...They were amassed between 1900 and 1930 by Archer Huntington, heir to a railroad fortune and a man in flight, seeking in exotic under-developed Spain a refuge from the new American industrial society that...
...His grandson, Cosimo III — more passionate still — commissioned Bartolomeo Bimbi to paint every citrus known in Tuscany, glorifying the region as fruitful and exotic....
...Spider silk and algae, something made from olive stones, marble dust, lobster shells, rose-petal silk, even lotus stems… If there’s a by-product, someone is working with it....
...There is more, the Silk Room, beautifully top lit, enveloped in green fabric and with some wonderful works on the wall — both Leighton’s own and Renaissance examples....
...A cotton dress with a cable-knit over the top is all very charming and low key for that British staycation, but the Mediterranean or California demands something more exotic....
...He earned his nickname, “Pick Six”, for a type of bet in which you pick a track’s winners in six consecutive races — an exotic wager that can pay well into six figures even on a meagre investment of a few...
...He did not use fur or exotic skins. He designed magnificent faux fur coats spliced with silk chiffon to make them softer and stitched small rectangles of black leather in imitation of crocodile....
...While pricier than her typical range, “it’s certainly cheaper than exotic skins”, she said....
...Tom Rakewell in “The Orgy” swoons to syphilitic flesh amid a whirl of conspicuous consumption — silk stockings, rustling satin, polished silver — then dies in “The Madhouse” as a monumental nude posed like...
...Lately wines from Azerbaijan have come my way for the first time thanks to an online tasting, organised by the country’s tourist board, entitled Secrets of the Silk Road....
...Some people have laundry liquids for whites and separate ones for colours, scented fabric conditioners, specialist silk and wool washes, even distilled lavender water to pour into deluxe steam irons....
...“Dress code: Silk Road.” For a moment I stared at the invitation, unable to compute. Summer. Evening. Garden. Party. Each rose-gold syllable seemed almost impossibly exotic — like a dream....
...Nothing in this list is threatening or even exotic: landscapes are local — the Thames, Suffolk — and extend no further than a Normandy garden. What we crave is wellbeing in familiar nature....
...The bodies were buried with their swords and their jewellery — perhaps surprisingly, the Vikings showed a dandyish fondness for brooches and necklaces, and those made of exotic carnelian beads from India...
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