Though the villas weren’t designed based on ADA requirements, the staff is incredibly accommodating and their focus on guest comfort is apparent.
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Megan Murphy,
Travel + Leisure,
23 Dec. 2024
This 400-acre property in the exclusive North Sound is villas and vacation homes first by design, giving it a low-density, community-style feel that offers visitors supreme seclusion.
Aging mansions, castles, stagecoaches, distraught women in nightgowns, and a madman in an asylum are all present and accounted for.
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Scott Phillips,
Forbes,
23 Dec. 2024
Lebanon is full of antiquities like the Greco-Roman ruins, Crusader castles and Ottoman architecture, but some have been damaged in the Israel-Hezbollah war.
Tracking shots through vast mansions, majestic overhead shots of the stag hunt and water lapping at the camera lens as a French galley slowly sinks into the ocean serve to immerse the audience in the film’s 19th century European world.
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Scott Phillips,
Forbes,
31 Dec. 2024
Montgomery officials say the need for such assistance is pervasive, even in one of the Washington region’s wealthiest counties, where large mansions and pristine golf courses are a short drive away from neighborhoods where going to a food shelter is a regular routine.
The eco-friendly bungalow, enveloped by lush tea estates, has been restored to its former glory by a collaboration between Uga and renowned Sri Lankan architect Channa Daswatte.
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Angelina Villa-Clarke,
Forbes,
16 Dec. 2024
Yet by the mid to late 18th century, early Americans began to embrace upholstered furniture, silk window treatments, and elaborate wallpapers, ranging from damasks and chinoiseries to large-scale, non-repeating murals like those seen at the Schuyler and Van Rensselaer estates in New York.
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