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...Head to a regional auction house sale preview....
...Six ensuite bedrooms are furnished with antiques, iconic contemporary Scandinavian designs and collectable 20th-century pieces, skilfully combined into vignettes....
...editor, Alphaville County Antrim Harlem, Belfast Step out of the Belfast rain, beyond the art deco-esque facade and into Harlem — a colourful room crammed with plants, statues, paintings, mismatched antiques...
...In a valley in the Chevreuse Regional Natural Park, about 45km south-west of Paris, past the clogged-up Boulevard Périphérique and through low-lying industrial areas, there has for centuries been a hidden...
...Breakfast is served in the shaded portico or in a pretty room off the courtyard – all star-vaulted ceilings, exposed walls of creamy pietra leccese, and regional delights such as dense, fruit-filled pasticciotti...
...Situated between Europe and north Africa, the island is home to regional ingredients and recipes that reflect the many cultures that have occupied it over centuries, including the Greeks, Romans, Arabs and...
...Simple in form and made from well seasoned and plentiful pine, they were typically inscribed with the newlyweds’ names, the date of their union and other regional designs that reflected the tastes of the...
...The total trade value of artworks, collectors’ pieces and antiques was HK$66.6bn (US$8.48bn), four times the market’s worth in 2017....
...The restaurant’s eco credentials go beyond sourcing produce from organic, local and regional farms....
...It’s lined with beautiful antique bookcases that are filled with treasures. You have to be ready to linger and dig, because it is all a bit of a lovely jumble....
...When the gate clicks open to the home of antiques dealer Cameron Smith and design consultant PJ Faulstick, regional vertigo takes hold....
...Canggu, on Bali — already notorious for its gridlock-as-regional-pastime issues — offers compelling food for thought on the topic....
...Not that the book selection itself isn’t vast and varied enough to warrant a visit, with more than 20,000 titles comprising English-language and Thai fiction and non-fiction, tons of regional history and...
...And there are others, some dating back hundreds of years, with antiques to match. But these destinations are limited and tend to exist in isolation from their surroundings....
...However, this antique had been cobbled together in Tuscany for the American market. The banker was dealt a forgery....
...His plan to transform an antique nightwatchmen system from aged caretakers into cadres of loyalist vigilantes will not endear him to estranged urban voters....
...Greece’s antiquities are managed by regional Ephorates, which are in turn overseen by a central office in Athens....
...I then discovered that Criterion was part of a network of 370 regional UK auction houses that all use a website called The Saleroom....
...I love a gift shop in a regional seaside town, but you might want something a little bit more elegant....
...Sales in China, the third-largest market for art and antiques after the US and UK, fell 10 per cent last year — the biggest drop of the three dominant art market centres....
...Plain wooden furniture has rarely been so cheap: at regional auction houses, buyers can often pick up a late 17th-century oak or elm gateleg dining table with finely turned legs for under £100 — and sometimes...
...And it’s the first regional operator with a specific agenda to advance conservation in the national parks and protected areas in which it operates....
...This includes 62.8bn pesos to upgrade 15 regional airports into international gateways by 2022....
...“It has been the single biggest wake-up call,” says Jeremy Barnes, regional director of Greeff, a South African property agent in alliance with Christie’s International Real Estate....
...In a recently opened café where a miniature Mao statue is displayed as just another curiosity in a cabinet of kitsch antiques, Qiu explains he has one foot in the old and new economies....
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