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...At The Newt in Somerset, it took a year to complete the intricate inlaid floors of a facsimile Roman villa — one of the hotel’s more unusual guest attractions....
...Architects Witherford Watson Mann have carried out a meticulous internal rebuilding of the Courtauld Gallery within the 18th-century shell of Somerset House, restoring old rooms and circulation spaces as...
...But they look equally at home in the 18th-century confines of the London restaurant Spring at Somerset House....
...What A five-bedroom home, plus a one-bedroom butler’s apartment and a one-bedroom lakefront guest cottage....
...Who Winkworth Penthouse, Somerset Place, £1.75mn Where In Somerset Place, a Georgian crescent in the north of the city....
...His Somerset-based company specialises in kitchens based on 18th and 19th-century craftsmanship: cabinet making, plasterwork and ironmongery....
8 Holland Street mixes eras, styles, high and low, the familiar and the unexpected
...Soon afterwards, Geovanis became chief executive of Somerset Coal International, a small Moscow-based mining technology company whose shareholders included Black....
...He had relocated from London to Monaco, the European tax haven that Somerset Maugham once dubbed “a sunny place for shady people”....
...Today, many of the Belle Époque hotel buildings are shuttered, or converted into cheap apartments....
...It comprises a mini-campus of buildings set back from the lake shoreline, in a hinterland of upscale 1970s apartment buildings and belle époque villas, dotted with palm and mimosa, that are the vernacular...
...In the kitchen of her 1920s apartment in east London, Ravneet Gill, the pastry chef and author of Sugar, I Love You, has a large domed-glass light well above the space....
...Michelle, a 38-year-old indoor escort based in the north of England, recently worked alongside two friends in a rented apartment, charging them £50 a day to cover costs, including a security guard....
...Above that sit 56 apartments priced from €17.5mn....
...By 1929 the Metropolitan had begun work on 11 more estates, including a luxury apartment block at Chiltern Court, Baker Street, where Betjeman kicks off his televised odyssey....
...Merryn Somerset Webb is editor-in-chief of MoneyWeek. Views are personal. merryn@ft.com. Twitter: @MerrynSW...
...Around the corner, Photo London resumes its May slot with 75 core galleries in Somerset House (May 12-15)....
...Manor house, Combe Florey, Taunton, Somerset, UK, £5.5m Where In the village of Combe Florey in south-west England, six miles from Taunton, where direct trains depart for London Paddington (from 1h40m)....
...Soon after she started working for him, Odey offered to put her up in an apartment, telling her: “I can look after you.” She said she made it “very clear” she was not interested....
...You can watch the fishermen along the South Pointe Pier, and there’s a seaside branch of Smith & Wollensky steak house right in the park....
...By 1700, Mary Somerset, Duchess of Beaufort, was growing masses of half-hardy plants indoors in her London mansion near the Chelsea Physic Garden....
...POA; ifexperience.it A West Sussex art powerhousePetworth, in West Sussex, seems to be emerging as a new Bruton, the Somerset village-turned-art and hospitality hive....
...On one side of the overpass is a waterfront site where rows of luxury apartment towers will soon rise with views of Manhattan across the Harlem River....
...George Fist called the first meeting at his apartment overlooking the ocean. He was proud of his view. Chapter 22. ‘Some guy tried to build in front of us,’ he remarked. ‘We sorted that out....
...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....
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