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...I wasn’t quite the first to stay there; Leonardo DiCaprio had checked in the week before....
...Cléo and Antoine pause before a cedar tree, where they dream up notions of Lebanon and change their minds on how much time they have left. Samer, too, paused by that cedar tree....
...Inside, all is simple and splendidly chic: if the furniture’s not 20th-century collectible, it’s carved from olive or cedar by local artisans; all the soaps in the simple plaster bathrooms are handmade for...
...The stony landscape of Wyoming “eroded by fantastic furniture, stale gnawed breadcrusts, tumbledbones, stacks of dirty folded blankets, bleached crab claws and dog teeth”....
...“My parents handled most of the furniture,” Valentina says. “They went to the fairs in Parma, and auction houses in Naples, Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on May 24. ©2022 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...I would advise against the ubiquitous synthetic rattan-effect furniture look — those L-shaped sofas and club chairs that are always so very blocky and inelegant and usually ash grey in colour, with matching...
...“l get people who say to me, ‘I can’t have a jungle garden because my garden’s in deep shade’. To which I point out that jungle gardens are always in deep shade, that’s the nature of what they are.”...
...I still dream of that trompe l’oeil corrugated iron tent — veranda, stained glass, flags and all. If you have a question for Luke about design and stylish living, email him at lukeedward.hall@ft.com....
...“We got to a stage where the safety officer was saying we had to put cages around the fires and fencing around the ditches and the pond, and we thought — this isn’t practical....
...“We don’t put a cloth on it very often, because we like the simplicity.”...
...“If you can’t stand up, you won’t be comfortable.”...
...“When it comes to technology and the home, I really don’t want to see any of it....
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...The road was narrow, bordered by drooping cedar trees. The trees were crowded with monkeys, but there were few people, and even fewer vehicles....
...On the sunny terrace of l’Hôtel du Palais, I watch a Russian family with two identical and immaculately dressed young boys stroll across the lawn to the curvaceous heated pool....
...Photographs: WeLive; Johnny Wolf; The Collective; Mekko Harjo; Monadnock Construction Inc...
...And isn’t that the greatest escape of all?...
...And Muscovites treat them like that: amazingly, the public furniture gets neither stolen nor vandalised....
...So when we advise L’Oréal to buy back Nestlé shares, I believe that we reinforce the independence of L’Oréal. “This is not anti-bourgeois per se but I consider that it has a meaning . . ....
...You can have great services with people sharing stuff but if someone isn’t making money, it isn’t a business....
...But West Campus is no city; this is a sprawling single-storey structure lifted on stilts above a huge car park, divorced from the ground, surrounded by green suburban lawns and freeways and containing a...
...It’s me, not the furniture, that has the personality. Equally, because my office space is unassuming, I can do with it what I want....
...The country’s trade minister, Ewa Björling, complained: “You can’t remove or airbrush women from reality.”...
...The brand is invested by Hermès and it combines traditional Chinese craftsmen with modern design to create a high-end collection of homeware, fashion, jewellery and furniture....
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