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Oranmore House + Garden Ballymena Antrim
Good Natured Of course, the drawing room mantelpiece has some rather fetching garniture. A pair of Staffordshire dogs are very on period. Books on steeplechasing ride high over the piano under a painting of ‘Beef or Salmon’, a past winner … Continue reading
Antrim + Down Coasts
Dockers and Carters Once a place to leave, not to live, never mind visit, least of all for a luxury travel experience, how times have changed. The east coast of Northern Ireland (Counties Antrim and Down with Belfast sitting over … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Country Houses, Hotels, Luxury, People, Restaurants
Tagged architect john o’connell, ballintoy harbour, ballygally castle hotel, bank house whitehead, café parisien, carrickarede rope bridge, chef michael deane, city hall, county antrim coast, county down coast, dark hedges, eipic restaurant, galgorm hotel, game of thrones, giants causeway, grand central hotel, hammy lowe spectrum cars belfast, heneghan peng architects, lavender's blue, mamma mia, maureen ohare cnn, merchant hotel belfast, meryl streep, montalto estate ballynahinch, oranmore ballymena, orla maguire, oscar oscar architects, ox restaurant belfast, rory mcilroy, royal belfast, royal county down, royal portrush golf course, st annes cathedral, stuart blakley, titanic hotel, titanic museum, toast the coast portia woods, whitehead, whitepark bay
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Rare Champagne + La Dame de Pic Four Seasons Hotel 10 Trinity Square London
Lotto and Cavagnole and Faro and Lansquenet Writing in Edwardian Architecture, Alastair Service describes the host building and its place in the architectural lexicon: “The commission for the Port of London Authority building was won in a competition of 1912 … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Hotels, Luxury, People, Restaurants
Tagged alastair service, anne sophie pic, cavagnole, charles holden, claridges, core by clare smyth, director of wine jan konetzki, edwardian architecture, edwin cooper, faro, harrods, head chef luca piscazzi, hedonism, la dame de pic four seasons hotel 10 trinity square london, lansquenet, lavender's blue, lotto, marie antoinette, pinte majeure, piper heidsieck, port of london authority building, rac club, rare champagne, ritz, samuel wyatt trinity house, scotts, selfridges, sexy fish, st marylebone town hall, stuart blakley
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The Shard + Shangri La Hotel London
Curtins Closing The last hurrah. Armed with a camera, a lust for life and a lack of vertigo, it’s all about a 26 second ascent to the 34th floor of The Shard, roughly halfway up the UK’s tallest cloudscraper. The … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Hotels, Luxury, People, Restaurants
Tagged lavender's blue, renzo piano, shangri la hotel london, shard, stuart blakley, susan sontag
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Lavender’s Blue + Rue de Rivoli Paris
A Boulevard of Dreams and Things “We met at the little bar across the place from Dior’s called the Fontaine-de-something and had one – two – three Champagne cocktails on my expense account. Then we had lunch.” Shamrocks and Unicorns, … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Fashion, Hotels, Luxury, People, Restaurants, Town Houses
Tagged 228 rue de rivoli, alain ducasse, elisabeth visoanska, hotel meurice calais, lavender's blue, le meurice paris, lord kilbracken, nairns paris, philippe starck, shamrocks and unicorns, stuart blakley, versailles
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Hôtel Charles V + St Paul Le Marais Paris
De Temps en Temps Continuing the bookending theme of a year well spent: Easter in George V, Christmas in Charles V. The former, westward upstream of Notre Dame; the latter, eastward downstream. One, extrovert art deco; the other, discreet Swedish … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Fashion, Hotels, Luxury, People
Tagged charles the wise, european house of photography, george v hotel, hotel charles v, hotel daumont, hotel de sens, hotel henault de cantobre, hotel st pol, ian nairn, la male deffeene, lavender's blue, nico thibault francioni, notre dame, river seine, rue st antoine, st paul, st paul le marais paris, stuart blakley
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Paris + Autumn
Coucou Loulou Frou Frou Paris was a dream that autumn, a beautifully drawn dream.
Posted in Hotels, Luxury, People, Town Houses
Tagged frou frou, lavender's blue, loulou, paris, stuart blakley
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Chicks with Bricks + The Prince’s Trust + The Ned London
Changing the Narrative It’s the time of year for females to be out in force. And a few feisty males. Celebrating women in property and construction is what makes Chicks with Bricks tick. The pre Christmas highlight is a fundraiser … Continue reading
Posted in Hotels, People
Tagged charles hanson auctioneer, chicks with bricks, de montfort university, donald urquhart, holly porter, iceni, jo richardson, kdh associates, kirsty hall, lavender's blue, lucie cox, mandrake hotel, mello view gardeners shed, nomad, princes trust, sadiya yasmin, stuart blakley, tala fustok, the line, the ned city of london, vivienne westwood
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World Boutique Hotel Awards 2019 +
The Four Score Nations Robin Sheppard, Co Founder of Bespoke Hotels, calls it, “A star studded, must attend, essential date in the world’s perpetual calendar.” The ninth World Boutique Hotel Awards takes place, as ever, in Merchant Taylors’ Hall in … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Hotels, Luxury, People, Restaurants
Tagged 2019 world boutique hotel awards, antonelli puglisi, awarta nusa dua resort and villas in bali, bradley goian, director schlomo gabbai, elisabeth visoanska, eroline lamontagne, fond doux plantation and resort st lucia, founder eco luxury, francisco seresina, laura scampini proprietor tenuta montemagno resort, lavender's blue, lyton lamontagne, maureen ohara cnn, merchant taylors hall city of london, mestyle garage hotel bangkok, ninth world boutique hotel awards, phatthamon sangratkanjanasin, robin sheppard co founder bespoke hotels, silent pool gin, stuart blakley, tenuta montemagno relais and wines, villa sostaga gargano, wild retreat vancouver island, worshipful company of merchant taylors, writer cheryl king
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La Divine Comédie Demeure Privée + Spa Avignon
A Sense of Theatre A private paradise. A secret world. A hidden kingdom. Cloistered glory. The very essence of exclusivity. If luxury could be bottled… heavenly scent. A multiple epiphanic realisation of complete beauty and tranquillity. Not even a Gallic … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Country Houses, Design, Fashion, Hotels, Luxury, People
Tagged amaury de villoutreys, avignon, colette gigi, colette the cat, dante, donald tusk president of the european council, frances hodgson burnett the secret garden, gaston, gilles jauffret, la divine comedie demeure privee spa, lavender's blue, min hogg founding editor of the world of interiors, provence, rue des bains, rue sainte catherine, rue saluces, simone, stuart blakley, theatre du chene noir, theatre golovine, thedule
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Forss House Thurso Caithness + The Chimneys
Passing Places Really, a newspaper cutting was enough to book Forss House for a Highlands escape. Those chimneys, even looming large in a thumbnail! Close to the northernmost point of Britain, Dunnet Head, the hotel overlooks a serpentine river and … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Country Houses, Hotels, Luxury, People
Tagged anne mackenzie general manager, chimneys, dunnet head, forss house hotel thurso Caithness scotland, galignani messenger, john gifford, joseph gribben belfast builder, major charles radclyffe, pevsner guide buildings of scotland highland and islands, sinclairs of orkney
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Lynnfield Hotel + Restaurant Kirkwall Orkney Islands
Freighted for Heaven A sea of chairs fills the drawing room. And somewhere at the core of Lynnfield Hotel is the 1790s manse of Kirkwall Cathedral. In 1902 Walter Grant, owner of the adjacent Highland Park Distillery, bought the house … Continue reading
Carrigart Hotel Donegal + Soufflé
Fair Dos | No Bother “The Carrigart Hotel was dead fancy! It really was The Place To Go To. They even served soufflé!”
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Tagged carrigart hotel, donegal, downings, lavender's blue, stuart blakley
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