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Category Archives: Hotels
Chicks with Bricks + The Ned London
We’re Going to Have a Ball It comes as no surprise that women in property and construction only make up 12 percent of the workforce. Men make up 12 percent of Chicks with Bricks: inverse proportionality. “It’s diverse, interesting, very … Continue reading
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Boutique Hotel Awards +
Quite Simply The Universe’s Most Glamorous Hospitality Awards Gala Dinner How the great poses? “We do it all the time!”
Villa Escher + Belvoir Park Zürich
Swiss Heir “You must have good taste!” exclaimed Lucy Worsley over lunch at the Marriott Grosvenor Square London last week. The Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces was looking resplendent in a red velvet dress. She was returning the compliment … Continue reading
The Marshall Doran Collection + Belleek Manor County Mayo
China in Your Hand Belleek Manor, or Belleek Castle as it’s now called, is unique and we don’t apply that word obliquely. Surely it must be the only example of 19th century Gothic Revival meets 20th century Medieval Revival in … Continue reading
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Tagged belleek castle, belleek castle hotel, belleek manor ballina mayo, christies london, grace omalley, great gatsby jack fenns courtyard café, john benjamin keanes, lavender's blue, lissadell, marshall doran collection museum, rozel fort jersey, sir francis knox gore, stuart blakley
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The Private Dining Room + The Goring Hotel London
Reel of Fortune It’s quite simply London’s classiest hotel so an invitation to a party in the Private Dining Room of The Goring is frame worthy. A promotion from mantlepiece to wall no less. Saturday night turns out to be … Continue reading
Coopershill House County Sligo + Francis Bindon
Louder Sang that Ghost Really, it’s the perfect Georgian box in the perfect grouping in the perfect setting. Coopershill House took 19 years to build; over 240 years later the house and estate are still in great shape. Dr Roderick … Continue reading
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Tagged annaghmore, architect francis bindon, arthur brooke cooper, bessborough, castle ffrench, castle morres, christina ohara, coopershill house county sligo, curraghmore, deane swift, desmond fitzgerald, desmond guinness, florence court, hargadon bros pub oconnell street, irelands blue book, irish georgian society, knight of glin, lavender's blue, mrs delaney, newhall, palladian room, richard castle, simon ohara, sligo, stuart blakley, william butler yeats, woodstock kilkenny
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Mount Falcon County Sligo + Phantom the Falcon
The First September The architect James Franklin Fuller sounds like he’d have been good craic at a dinner party. When not bashing out High Victorian melodramatic novels, bragging of his descent from Charlemagne or boasting of his wife’s connections to … Continue reading
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Tagged a guide to irish country houses, annaghmore, architect james franklin fuller, ashford castle, belleek manor, blue book Ireland, constance aldridge, farmleigh, kenmare hotel, kylemore abbey, lavender's blue, major aldridge, maloney, mark bence jones, mount falcon hotel county sligo, nina gore knox, stuart blakley, ultred knox
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