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...lie, to be shared with one or two like-minded friends who understand that the price of admission to something more than a solid house vino is that they pay just the slightest attention to what’s in their glass...
...In a high-security vault in London’s Mayfair, where the glass is thick enough to resist automatic gunfire and four control rooms keep watch around the clock, some of the world’s wealthiest individuals have...
...But you can still snuggle down at home with a glass of something beneficial and enjoy these online offerings — some seasonal, some not so much....
...This week, prices rocketed to record highs above $2,000 per troy ounce for the first time — a 36 per cent ascent in the year so far that far outstrips any stocks index....
...In Richmond, the same agent is selling an unusual four-bedroom contemporary house — all curves and glass — for £5.95m. The uptick in demand is not limited to exclusive suburbs....
...Wine is ordered injudiciously from a list that, at £20 a bottle for house, is cheaper than a single glass at many of its neighbours. London does not want for good Middle Eastern food....
...On good (sunny) years he makes a red, albeit with muscat grapes under glass....
...We eat early at Hix Oyster & Fish House, a glass box hanging over the beach....
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...While its history dates back centuries — Baroque architecture abounds — many pockets of the sprawling city feel contemporary, with glass and steel tower blocks and trendy new restaurants and hotels....
...It has its own bowling alley, a $12,000 glass pool table and a decommissioned helicopter on the roof. And it is all yours for a quarter of a billion dollars....
...Double glass doors open on to a cedar wood porch that leads to aluminium dining chairs and a table surrounded by stone paving and thick pine trees....
...Towards the back of the apartment, down a narrow hall adorned with family photos and framed prints, sliding glass doors open to an outside deck with unobstructed views of downtown San Francisco....
...The property on Scott Street has a grand entrance hall with carved-wood ceilings, a stained-glass skylight and views over the Palace of Fine Arts to the Golden Gate Bridge beyond....
...For me they were all Helena of Troy and every man was Plato,” he says. His next film, La Vita in Comune, is set in the fictional village of, ahem, Disperata, or Desperate....
...The unit, measuring 1,874 sq ft, features 10ft-high floor-to-ceiling glass windows....
...It features a distinctive butterfly roof and a wall of glass on the main floor with views of the Hudson river and Catskill Mountains....
...The Trojan Women is, after all, about refugees; Troy has fallen, the men are dead and the women of Troy await their fate among the Greek tents....
...Called Villa Eden Gardone, this private resort of seven villas, seven apartments and a penthouse is being developed by the Austrian company Signa Group and includes homes with glass-fronted living areas...
...“Outside is glass and steel, of course, but inside are very personal comforts that create a strong architectural dialogue.”...
...Russian developer MonArch AG, one of Moscow’s largest building groups, plans to construct the Alexander A Tower, a sleek glass-and-steel skyscraper that will measure at least 490ft high....
...This spring, however, the waterfront property with a generous sun deck and soaring folding glass windows that Ajemian is finishing is not in the Hamptons....
...Orbbec 3D Technology, which makes motion sensors, said it would create a head office in the city of Troy....
...The outsize influence of brands is “classic pinkwashing”, says Dan Glass, a prominent leftwing LGBT activist in the UK....
...The glass and steel condominium recently completed in Cologne’s Deutz district overlooks the Rhine river and has unobstructed views of the city’s famous cathedral....
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