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...The 11 accommodations, ranging from one-room junior suites to a clutch of small apartments, reflect the patrician rural setting: simple white walls and timber floors, cast-iron beds....
...In Virgil’s Aeneid the holm oak is a dark tree, a marker beneath which Aeneas will find a white sow with piglets when he finally lands in Italy....
...White Oak did not immediately respond to a request for comment....
...A cool $50mn has been spent transforming its 68 rooms, now an essay in white oak and woven textiles in homage to the town’s Bauhaus associations....
...It says nothing about Alnus cordata’s spring catkins, nothing about the popular white-barked birch, Betula jacquemontii, and nothing about holm oaks, Quercus ilex....
...Tokio Marine, White Oak, IAG and a spokesperson for Lex Greensill declined to comment. Foreman said he had no additional comment....
...But inside the thick white walls, it remains cool with the still air of a Hammershøi painting....
...Dressed in white painters’ overalls and chestnut leather hiking boots, he’s giving me an advance tour of the space. And there’s much to lose oneself in....
...Here is the company statement that went out on Friday: NEW YORK, November 18, 2022 — Sculptor Capital Management, Inc....
...manor-style terrace lodge....
...The lane twists, rises and falls as it traces the young River Teign, suddenly plunging into the shade of old oaks....
...Well, the reason may be that White Oak isn’t a disinterested outsider and is trying to manage its existing exposure to Gupta’s metals group....
...White & Case has hired Robert Nield as a partner in its London M&A practice. He joins the law firm from Sidley Austin....
...“We are circled by major trees in the distance and the tops of the oaks and beech are like the tops of the topiary, which pulls in the landscape....
...“It’s so aspirational,” says White, who specialises in wall painting from the Elizabethan period....
...Their scenes may include a lion roaming a city street, as in the 2015 piece “Rain in the Port of Spain (White Oak)”; or the incongruous, archaic ceremonial costumes of the figures of his 2002 painting “Gasthof...
...Its black-and-white marble floor, oak-panelled walls, carved Ionic columns and gallery high above combine to create a show-stopper....
...Scientific research also showed it was painted on panels from an oak tree used for another painting dated to that period....
...I am lucky enough to have been given exclusive access to Reddish House, the 17th-century Wiltshire manor bought by Cecil Beaton in 1947, where he lived until his death in 1980 at the age of 76....
...But the days of over-extraction and formulaic winemaking with an emphasis on oak and alcohol in St-Émilion are well and truly over....
...What A Bedford white-washed brick manor from the 1930s with seven bedrooms, a 10-stall stable, three-bedroom guest house, staff apartment, pool and tennis court....
...Holm oak (Quercus ilex): like yew, this can grow to 25m. Osmanthus: slow-growing, dark foliage and scented white flowers in late spring....
...Afterwards, both musicians and audience mingle outside in a circle of chestnut trees to one side of the manor house lawn....
...It has a slender white metal cube frame with a natural leather seat suspended from it....
...They are also training growing numbers of apprentices and working to attract women and ethnic minority candidates to an industry traditionally dominated by white men....
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