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...Louis Vuitton wool oversized jacket, £2,820 Dice Kayek wool trousers €590 Space Available recycled-plastic and bamboo meditation chair, £690 Studio Dévé gold-vermeil Croissance Illimitée earrings, £395...
...There are several seating/lounging sections on the imported sand, providing various levels of luxury (from deck chairs, to sunloungers to bamboo huts with large beds)....
...It even has an empty “zone” at its centre to evoke the Zen state of Kuu in which matcha is best consumed. Coming from anyone other than Tsukada, the pitch would sound fanciful....
...Taken out of context and turned into aphorisms, the words have a bullshitty whiff about them, a superficiality that confirms clichés about east-meets-west-Zen-contemplative-airiness....
...“Iya provided a treasure trove of castaway folk handicraft and I filled the house with old saws, tansu chests and carved-bamboo implements,” he says....
...with a stylised sun depicted on the canopy. chairish.com Domo Zen twin canopy bed by Nico & Yeye, $2,178 Perfect for children’s rooms, this maple design comes in a variety of colour options. chairish.com...
...The studio offers a Zen atmosphere with bamboo scrolls and screens and a patio for (Covid-friendly) outdoor styling....
...“Most of our guests are in their 30s and find us on Instagram,” says Romain Michel-Ménière, the architect who opened the desert oasis in 2017 – its Zen-like spaces furnished with a mix of rugs, bamboo chairs...
...My wife ordered the fried kita akari potatoes, as much for the luscious aioli that was served alongside them, while I enjoyed the more intriguing black “forbidden” rice with takenoko (tender young bamboo...
...At the foot of the Lingfeng Peaks in Zhejiang Province, nestled in bamboo forests, lies the Club Med Joyview Anji Resort....
...I want a pool for reflection, some bamboo, perhaps a few azaleas and a light covering of pebbles — that shouldn’t cause a problem, should it? Ah....
...In the renderings, it looks like a kind of bamboo-framed jungle, its hanging gardens and timber terraces having more of Bali in them than Rive Gauche....
...Nothing more than an elevated bamboo stage, its visual simplicity and singular function captured, for Taut, the very essence of modern design....
...You must be Zen to be a driver, especially in the rainy season. The frightening bits were the bridges and the sea....
...“In Marx’s greatest garden,” he recalls, “there were only bamboos, greenery and doves.” Marx is most famous for sweeps of bright leaves and flowers which he combined like abstract paintings....
...This lovely flowering cherry encloses a gravel garden, but the gravel is pink to match its flowers and is raked into grooves on the model of a Japanese Zen garden....
...You’ve taken a massive hit for bad conduct and Asian loan impairments.S: After wildfire scorches the bamboo thicket, it sends forth green shoots.I: Is that your strategic plan?S: Yup....
...In a blacked out warehouse in 31 plus degree heat Paris, Thom Browne attached 30 young models wearing elaborate long kimono suits to bamboo scarecrow crosses. Is this a fashion crucifixion?...
...Humans are only one of many things and all these things long to live, and the highest form of living is freedom: a man to be a man, a cloud to be a cloud, bamboo to be bamboo.”...
...Put down the book, take another sip from the beaker and savour the Zen of reeling in those endless prairies....
...Japan’s decades-long stagnant economy has instead fuelled bare-boned interiors with “modern” Zen aesthetics: wooden floors, white walls, and an emphasis on craftsmanship....
...Quick-growing bamboos were added as a shield. Bell says he always gets involved with landscaping, even if an owner is reluctant at first....
...The courses included bonito rolled inside a cucumber shell and served with a ginger, garlic and radish sauce, a sashimi plate that highlighted botan ebi, a prawn I had never tasted; a dish of leeks, bamboo...
...The lightly pruned weeping pink cherries are fixed on to scaffolds of elegant bamboo and their “fallen flowers are left to form a shining pink raft on the water”....
...One such piece is the double screen “Tigers and Bamboo”, which shows two big cats, one on a menacing prowl and the other nonchalantly scratching behind its ear....
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