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...One of Richardson’s clients, who spent up to £100,000 on inflatables with teak-effect surfaces, described them as “the best value real estate he’s ever come across”....
...“Annoyingly, I sold them not knowing who they were by – but someone knew,” laughs Pearce of the boxy 1960s teak-framed lounge chairs now listed on 1stdibs for €17,500....
...The decor was all whispered luxury, a combo of teak and Lalique. Unless you were sitting down or eating or exercising, you had to wear a mask....
...It was the Saturday when Boris Johnson was due to lay out the next strictures. The time for the televised press conference came and went; the schedule slipped later and later....
...Howard Johnson himself came over in person to open it. It was not an immediate success....
...Utopia, 200ft of luxury with a teak helipad, was judged in 2007 to be the ninth largest yacht in America by Power & Motoryacht magazine....
...The flooring, which will make the place and should be going down as you read this, is a rich, reddish hardwood known as umbila, or “wild teak”....
...My split-level room had a huge hollow ceramic fish by the entrance, and what looked like a giant teak throne downstairs....
...The New York-based art dealer purchased an elegant tubular brass standing lamp (c1946-51) by Gino Sarfatti for $30,000 (estimate $10,000-$15,000) at Phillips de Pury in New York, and three teak stools (1965...
...SeaNet is offering a one-quarter share of a 62ft Sunseeker Manhattan built in 2007, with accommodation for six, teak floors and air conditioning, for US$397,000....
...Jo Johnson is the FT’s South Asia bureau chief ………………………………….....
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