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...towels in a range of patterns and colourways. tawulliving.com Marbled wastepaper bin by Cabana, £95 Handmade by Venetian artisans using traditional marbling techniques. cabanamagazine.com Valerie double vanity...
...The Vanity Fair XC Imagine Edition takes a 1930 armchair design and turns it into a seat amid the clouds....
...From here, there is access to a small powder room fitted with a shiny black vanity and circular mirror that echoes Ruhlmann’s work in the main salon....
...Lose weight not for vanity or to chase an arbitrary number, Stensel urges, but instead “to engage with life and to live the life you want”....
...With the expansion in the scale of fittings, from double vanity units (do couples really go to the bathroom together? Especially in a house with that much choice?)...
...“But I’ll use a stone finish — like slate — around the vanity or bath to take the edge off the prettiness,” she says....
...A series of vanity-free self-portraits answer the question “How Will I Die” in an assortment of similar ways....
...Walls are bare stone, white or left to breathe with a lime plaster finish, while bathrooms are modern with sleek marble vanities....
...Look to the interior decorator Syrie Maugham’s dressing rooms and bathrooms of the 1920s and 1930s for further inspiration....
...Just because the chest of drawers has always been in the hallway, that doesn’t mean it can’t have a basin cut into the top and become your bathroom vanity unit....
...Edward Hopper stalked, a quiet, slightly sneering, silently honest figure of obstinacy,” Vanity Fair noted in 1929....
...“I thought it would be incredible to have something really whimsical and colourful,” she says of the vanity area, clad in handmade baby-blue tiles and topped with piston-like ceramic sculptures....
...complete with abundant toiletries, swaths of fluffy white towels and those alarming round vanity mirrors that illuminate and magnify....
...These activities are best kept for bathroom mirrors after midnight, not shared in the glare of everybody’s screen....
...The bathroom “is the bit where I went to town and decided to have some fun,” says Allen, who describes the view of the vanity mirror as you come up the stairs as a “floating orb effect”....
...Armani describes the overall Casa identity as “eclectic”, with influences drawn from different eras and cultures – spherical vanity units crafted from mother-of-pearl are sold alongside Japanese-inspired...
...They were firm that nothing should be destroyed unnecessarily, so while Betty’s pink bathroom suite was discarded, other elements were repurposed....
...I was about four years into my 25 years as the editor of Vanity Fair....
...Leibovitz has been in upstate New York since mid-March — “sharing one bathroom with three teenage girls!”....
...“We had superstars like Tabu and all these wonderful actors under their blankets in their bathrooms with their microphones — their dogs muzzled, and everyone recording in these homemade studios we created...
...And the high prevalence of beautiful young women, who look great in clothes, raises all kinds of issues around female vanity and confidence, and often provokes an immediate and aggressive backlash....
...of the oak and marble vanity units)....
...Sitting in front of the vanity mirror, for the first time in a long while, she had even applied some make-up. A swish of mascara, a smudge of kohl, a touch of rouge on her soft, flaccid cheeks....
...This was done not just out of vanity but, like getting a flu shot, as a civic duty....
...There is a working fireplace, a Bridget Riley painting on the wall and a double vanity unit in marble that I designed and had made by a carpenter in the West Country....
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