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Rethinking the Balcony |
To escape the frenetic pace of city life, Troy and L. Camille Thornton need only slip out through the glass door of their bedroom in SoHo. There, tucked away on an expansive deck, sits a verdant garden of rose of Sharon, lavender and andromeda, along with Hinoki cypress, Japanese maple and cher .......more
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| Knock, knock: How to make a grand entrance |
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When Queen Victoria's beloved husband Prince Albert died in 1860, she decreed that all front doors in the UK be painted black in mourning. Most of her subjects complied and black became the norm across England almost overnight. In Ireland, however, there was a mild but effective rebellion: fron .......more
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Meet the chair men |
| Anne Ashworth offers a guide to the big names in furniture
NAME-DROPPING is the key to winning points in a conversation about 20th-century furniture. You need to show awareness of the leading figures and important pieces. The La-Z-Boy recliner, made famous by Friends, does not .......more
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| Taming Spaces: Living Large |
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| Some design magazines tend to obsess over the most efficient use of small spaces, but for Americans living in the new supersize suburbia, extra space may actually be a more pressing problem.
The number of large houses (those bigger than 4,500 square feet) built annually has more than dou .......more
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The Life Transparent |
| LESS than three years ago, when Nicole Kidman and Calvin Klein bought apartments in the all-glass Richard Meier towers on Perry Street, the transparent jewel box buildings were still a kind of novelty in New York.
But it wasn't long before see-through exterior walls became the latest mus .......more
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