Halloween is round the corner and this year we are going Paperless - save the paper with this cool services that ill make your parties unforgettable and you planet footprint at a minimum. Here are some of our absolute favourites!
‘I found Rome mind-blowing. You’re standing in these ancient ruins and you’re not looking at the remnants of one civilisation, you’re looking at two built on top of each other."
In the midst of her wedding ceremony, a princess is captured by a dragon and whisked away to a remote island. That's a great plot to begin with - I must admit I was unsure about this movie but it pleasantly surprised me . The set and costumes where utterly beautiful in every way. The leads were charming and the love story did not feel forced. A perfect take on Beauty and the Beast and dragons are way cooler.
Have you watched the Borgias? If not you should seriously consider with a cast including Jeremy Irons, Francois Arnault and Holiday Grainger it was one of the best I've seen on TV. To bad it was canceled after only 3 seasons. But that doesn't mean we can't love it as much as we do.
PS. The costumes are priceless.
Can one really decide between the contemporary designs and classical pieces? I for sure can't - and this mix and match is always making me feel so nice. From long chandelier to a modern swing in your living room what is your biggest desire?
From imperial residences and aristocratic estates to hotels and urban mansions, new book Abandoned Palaces by Michael Kerrigan contains remarkable pictures of ostentatious buildings that have fallen into ruin.
General Joseph Howland (1834–86) was born into stupendous wealth in New York, his family having made its fortune in the China trade. He gave much of it away, as a lifelong philanthropist, endowing libraries and hospitals in the vicinity of Beacon, but the estate at Tioronda in New York, pictured, was a present to himself.
'Dona Chica' was the title popularly given in Palmeira, Portugal, to the local landowner's Brazilian born wife, Francisca Peixoto Rego (1895–1958). Swiss architect Ernst Korrod (1870–1944) was commissioned to create a home appropriate to her prestige and beauty.
