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...Last year Sprod and Bullock opened a clutch of tumbledown farm buildings as an eco-resort collection of suites and apartments....
...The 11 accommodations, ranging from one-room junior suites to a clutch of small apartments, reflect the patrician rural setting: simple white walls and timber floors, cast-iron beds....
...It sits just to the left of the grand semi-circular stone staircase that leads to the rest of the living quarters on the first floor. The house has no proper dining room....
..., €2,350I just moved apartments and have my eye on this armchair by Midi....
...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...
...There are 120 hotel rooms, 85 residential apartments, nine restaurants, three bars, a spa and gym....
...Many of these blur the line between architecture and land art, including Andy Goldsworthy’s buried dome of oak branches and Ai Weiwei’s meandering stone roadway built of blue Marseille cobbles....
...Old stone floors encourage bare feet (Jeremias is fine with them, too)....
...With materials ranging from oak parquet and stone for the floors and walls to lacquer work by American artist Nancy Lorenz and a four-ton glass diamond-cut skylight feature, everything shimmers, refracts...
...Kilmartin Glen has the richest concentration of prehistoric monuments in Scotland: standing stones, stone circles, a linear cemetery of burial cairns, mysterious rock carvings....
...I gaze up at a sprawling pile clad in stone and larch with multiple terraces, balconies and jauntily angled aluminium struts....
...Guadagnino completed the house in 2018 and the following year he designed Marchetti’s Milan apartment....
...A friend had just taken possession of an apartment with 14ft ceilings and was throwing out interlined drapes in embroidered silk and toile de Jouy — all a bit ripped but not beyond repair....
...It’s a way to offer faster promotion to associates, and a stepping stone in the gruelling slog to make partner, the FT’s Kate Beioley reports....
...In this underlit room of warm wooden colours and eight-metre ceilings, almost everybody striding along the oak floors looks beautiful....
...Apartment blocks and sunloungers are not my thing and this beach, even in very early June, is already too crowded for my liking....
...Balsamic fragrances wafted through the garden; water trickled along stone channels....
...The property has a large, open dining room, big windows, stone fireplaces and oak flooring. Outside, there are three stone patios, a dining area with built-in BBQ and a tennis court....
...The original carved-oak staircase that leads from the lobby to Batlló’s apartment resembles a prehistoric backbone, and Gaudí’s wondrous aquatic-inspired dream permeates every detail: the interior courtyard...
...He has just completed work on his own new home, an apartment in a 17th-century house near the Goodwood Estate in West Sussex....
...Why: With a scholarly history and a comfortable oak-floored office, it is perfectly suited to a serious work ethic....
...Contoured oak shelving for books and the family’s collection of archaeological finds, aquatic blue-and-white tiles by Alex Zdanowicz and backlit Corian all add a feeling of warmth....
...Speake has worked on everything from Swiss chalets to Parisian apartments and chichi London boutiques....
...Raising a family in Old Oak would be impossible, and Merchant describes the development as “a stepping stone.” The question is, to where?...
...We walked down a straight avenue with an unusual, slightly domed grass surface, lined with neatly clipped box and holm oak trees, to the Piazzale della Stella....
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