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...What A 1,600 sq m villa, two apartments and buildings including a chapel....
...People still want smart home tech, she says, but they are also looking for rustic comforts: their own well and olive grove, perhaps....
...Redfern says there is more available to buy below £5mn, especially apartments....
...The designer duo’s Le Cocodoll bed – essentially an egg-like bird body with large bronze feet – once graced the apartment of French decorator Jacques Grange....
...Stay, for instance, in the art- and daylight-filled riverfront apartment named after the jeweller Bibi van der Velden, and you’re invited to visit her studio or, better still, have her staff come to you,...
...While Portobello-adjacent Westbourne Grove grew ever more sought-after, Whiteley’s and Queensway, the narrow high street flowing from Hyde Park to Westbourne Grove on which it sits, declined into a dreary...
...What A villa with more than 1,300 sq m of living space including seven bedrooms, two of which are in separate apartments and most of which have walk-in closets....
...Outside, the gardens include lemon trees, olive groves and bougainvillea. There are also numerous terraces, a saltwater pool and landscaped sun deck overlooking the sea....
...Walnuts. Pomegranates, plucked right through December. Cactus fruits. Peaches. And so forth....
...A better precaution would be to plant circles of walnuts round villages in the future fireline....
...Buyers of the new-build homes at 53 Agar Grove have much greater concerns....
...His flat is big enough to accommodate a grove of full-size olive and lemon trees. He is a militant supporter of building more high-rise architecture in Manchester....
...It is set on 1.8 hectares of land, featuring olive groves, mature trees and a lemon house....
...The latter are on a three-year loan from the artist, whose London apartment Tessier also designed....
...What A three-storey house with nearly 450 sq m of indoor space including a 150 sq m guest apartment. There are a total of four bedrooms and three bathrooms....
...The handful of rooms and apartments are elegant-trad, clean-lined and pretty....
...For her own kitchen in a Bristol apartment, Cox opted for a country-house feel, “a mix and match of things; with the slight sense of disorder that I find pleasing.”...
...The few new-build apartment schemes include One St John’s Wood, 4-6 St Edmunds Terrace and 1A St John’s Wood Park — the last is a newly launched boutique collection of nine apartments with prices starting...
...If you are looking to decorate an apartment with some greenery, The Old Yew can provide you with a small citrus tree or ficus....
...“Walnut and pine are soft and can get the dreaded woodworm, and that does lead to weakness.”...
...These tomatoes were dressed in fruity, peppery olive oil made using olives from their own grove. Most years, Betty and George returned to the US before the harvest....
...Its distinctive white limestone cliffs give way inland to ancient olive groves, alternating with thick dark groves of Cyprus trees....
...The six accommodations range from a modest couple’s room to a studio-apartment-sized suite with its own terrace....
...Heart Sutra by Yan Lianke, translated by Carlos Rojas, Chatto & Windus £18.99/Grove Press $28, 416 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Their poor town of about 8,000 people was organised around a long central street with a cathedral and surrounded by olive groves and cheaply constructed block houses....
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