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...I notice a stack of records in a roped-off area and a big wood-encased speaker in the first-floor lounge....
...Vaarnii also teamed up with British designer Faye Toogood to launch The Peace Outdoor Lounge chair (£1,650) and matching footstool (£390), which gives a nod to the classic Adirondack....
...For every purchase a tree is planted Kate McLeod Balance Face Stone solid moisturiser with bamboo packaging, $68 Sid Neigum 95 per cent bamboo jersey dress, £612, luisaviaroma.com Holmes Bespoke 100 per...
...Blue Bar cultivates mystery with dimmed lighting interiors darker tones, The Berkeley Bar is all sweet sorbet colours and brightness: light wood walls (every panel carved from the same 400-year-old walnut tree...
...It will be the mountain’s first major expansion since 1985 and increase terrain served by lifts by 153 acres, or 20 per cent, adding 19 “chutes” (known in Europe as couloirs), three gladed areas for tree-skiing...
...Jack sits in his wheelchair, smoking under the shade of a big tree. You agree it is hot today....
...The lobby desk is a replica Douglas fir tree trunk, cross-sectioned (and back-lit) to show what it would look like leaving a lumber mill....
...The mood is relaxed, and there’s a smart-casual vibe in the lobby lounge area. There are small touches that make it special....
...From afar it looks like a rural patch of Switzerland: set on a mountainside, below the tree line, the green pastures dotted with traditional Bhutanese buildings, with intricate wooden frames and roofs....
...A child was playing on a swing suspended from a tree. “The Americans came ashore here. It was a bit like the Normandy landings, under heavy Japanese fire,” Des was saying....
...Right there, under the Great Room,” he says, indicating the lodge’s sleek oval lounge-bar-restaurant area below the sand dune we’re standing on — clad in limestone and floor-to-ceiling glass, with views...
...It’s here that last summer Banyan Tree opened the first of its Escapes, a new spin-off collection of small, ultra-indulgent, adults-only resorts....
...Elevated on pilotis, the slender steel columns made famous by Le Corbusier, a cut-out courtyard allows a tree to grow through the house while others embrace it from all around, shading the interior and creating...
...It’s late afternoon, and he is seated at a small table beneath a pine tree on one of the tower’s terraces....
...The Piaule Catskill’s clientele of urban escapees is also the focus of developer David McAdam, whose company Homestead Modern has created similar cabins at Joshua Tree National Park....
...The room where this exchange takes place is a high-windowed lounge atop Grand Seiko’s studio in the northern Japanese town of Shizukuishi....
...Most are in the private detached cottages that circle the main log-cabin building, which has a vast central lounge festooned with plaid upholstery and deer heads....
...Drawing on the discovery of its namesake, this bar is about experimentation, with a dedicated fermentation chamber and even a cocktail called One Penicillin, One Tree, where for every order, one tree is...
...All the apples came off the tree in November,” David says....
...In a tree outside the dining room live a pair of blue and yellow macaws who peer through the windows at the strange humans within....
...It consists of one-off pieces by different designers, all made from a tree in SCP founder Sheridan Coakley’s garden....
...The Games Room on the top floor, which comprises a lounge and bar, is dominated by smut....
...The concept has grown quickly: there are now London clubhouses in Kensington (which features a fabulous tree house-inspired play area), Chiswick and Islington, and the business has an international arm with...
...The guy that's having lunch with Oprah at the Polo Lounge. He's embodied that Hollywood swagger....
...Just don’t come expecting the hot tubs and cigar lounges found at some Canadian heli-ski lodges. More memorable treats lie in the mountains all around....
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