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FOLLOW A PATH UP FROM THE OCEAN
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Across a sandy beach and rocky lava fields, and you’ll reach it: a vacation home tucked into the coast of Hawaii’s Big Island, where stark simplicity provides a respite from the area’s prevailing tropical colors. “When we took on the project,the clients told us right away thatthey’re minimalists at heart,” says San Francisco– based designerCatherine Kwong. “That’s an easy thing to do in a big city loft, but we had to figure out, how did that translate to a house that’s open to the elements? And how do we make it a kind of place where people wantto unwind?” Kwong...
HAPPY TAILS
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Kirkwood residents Chris and genus Melissa Fox had designed their home nearly a decade agone. Even although it was comparatively new they weren’t happy. whereas the vessel sinks provided visual eye candy they weren’t terribly functional; water splashed everywhere the countertops, the area was dark, and the intrinsic corner bathtub tub was cumbersome. “Their dislike for the brown woodwork finally created them conceive to do one thing,” says designer Leah Jerrell, owner of LJ Interior styles. a lover of a lover had referred Randall Jarrell to the couple. She reminisced concerning their 1st meeting. “We paged through some of Chris...
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Soul OF INDIA
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From the antiquated sanctuaries and vivid markets of Delhi to the sentimental demolished posts of Rajasthan and the natural life of Ranthambore National Park, this entrancing nation offers an abundance of encounters for the faculties Remaining on the patio of Humayun's Tomb, a red-stone sepulcher for India's second Mughal sovereign, my breath eases back to the pace of that of the feathered creatures up above, wings spread draping still noticeable all around like dark outlines against the orange night sun. Structured in the sixteenth century by Persian draftsmen, this is the principal case of a greenhouse tomb in India –...
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little gems; DÁ LICENÇA
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MARY LUSSIANA IS ENCHANTED BY AN ART AND CRAFT-FILLED HOTEL AMONG THE OLIVE GROVES AND HILLTOP TOWNS OF THE ALENTEJO REGION Somewhere in the range of two hours east of Lisbon, the scene of open fields is dabbed with olive forests and antiquated, white-washed, peak towns graced with settling storks. The as of late opened Dá Licença has brought a totally new dimension of cabin to this crude and true corner of Portugal's Alentejo region.Converted nineteenth-century ranch structures, dissipated crosswise over ground that was initially developed as a natural nursery by nearby nuns, are at the core of in excess...
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Bends BRING MOVEMENT AND MAKE THINGS MORE DYNAMIC AND LESS RIGID'
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EN-SUITE BATHROOM Pale Arabescata marble has been used for the elegant bath surround and splashback. The distinctive coral-themed hanging lightis a design by Vaughanhad seen at Charleston, the Bloomsbury Group's Sussex house. They additionally gather works by Duncan Grant – one of its residents.The proprietor had focused on that she didn't need the house to be too 'existing apart from everything else', so it wouldn't feel dated in years to come. Beata concurred and the two of them dismissed a regular cabin kitchen look. 'I needed the kitchen to be new – sort of Fifties in feel, just as the...