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...Set in a stucco-fronted terrace behind Kensington High Street, the town house where Sambourne lived from 1875 to 1910 is a time-warp of late Victoriana....
...Sex was also on offer: William Hogarth’s A Harlot’s Progress records the descent of a naive country girl, tempted by fine new clothes, into a courtesan....
...Details William Dalrymple was a guest of Wild Frontiers (wildfrontierstravel.com)....
...For all the legacies of Christopher Wren and William Mulholland, neither underwent a rationalisation as total as Haussmann’s of Paris, or Pope Sixtus V’s of Rome....
...It is rendered in a subtle pink stucco that almost seems to glow a pale-honey shade in the afternoon sunlight....
...William Dalrymple was the guest of Steppes Travel....
...Two expansive 19th-century rooms were refurbished by the architects Stanton Williams....
...An early watercolour of the pagoda by William Marlow, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, has also helped the restoration, as have many pseudo-Chinese dragons on ceramics, stucco and other...
...“It disconcerts her to find that Paris has become somehow Floridian, all humidity and pink stucco and cellulite rippling under the hems of shorts,” thinks the female protagonist....
...Its barrel-vaulted, stucco-plastered Grand Hall, an impressive piece of Edwardian neo-Baroque, was conceived as a place of “High Class Entertainment”....
...Ricci’s horse was trounced by another banker’s nag — Special Tiara, owned by former Citigroup exec Sally Rowley-Williams....
...William Wilberforce spent the last two years of his life at number 44. Former prime minister Harold Macmillan grew up at number 52 What you can buy for . . ....
...Yorkshireman William Whiteley arrived in London with £10 in his pocket in 1855, opening a fancy goods shop a few years later in Westbourne Grove or “Bankruptcy Avenue” as it was known then....
...The family’s roots, however, were in Cheshire — where William the Conqueror had sent a kinsman to secure the English border with Wales....
...William Pitt Sotheby’s is marketing a seven-bedroom home with five bathrooms in the town of Rye for $3.69m....
...The two-storey stucco and limestone main house measures 6,700 sq ft, and the property features a gym, massage room and outdoor pool....
...In 1519, the 80-year-old former master of Eton College, William Horman, showed a peculiar interest in white surfaces in his book Vulgaria....
...Today, we are seated more comfortably, in Estée Lauder’s London offices, a pair of low-profile stucco-fronted Georgian town houses in Mayfair....
...Chief among these was anti-slavery campaigner William Wilberforce, who worshipped at Clapham’s Holy Trinity Church with a group of campaigners later dubbed the “Clapham sect”....
...His Miss Blanche chair – named after Tennessee Williams’ character Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire – goes for six figures at auctions....
...Step over its unassuming threshold, however, and it feels as though you’ve found a portal to another world: a low-ceilinged, narrow corridor plastered in exuberant rococo stucco of the sort that the wealthiest...
...But one of the movement’s forebears was William Paley, an English philosopher born in 1743....
...William Brown, Ms Kot’s attorney, said: “The only people who are getting handcuffs put on them are the low hanging fruit....
...Although houses in squares are being sold at a premium, it’s not a living pattern forever set in stucco....
...A year later, a fellow townsman and London commuter named William Shakespeare buys a house 100 metres away and becomes your neighbour....
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