But the whole experience, including Continental breakfast in a handsome, ground-floor sitting room, offered a chance to feel as though I had been across the Atlantic Ocean.
This aggressive but handsome ground cover can even sneak into a lawn, if it is not watched.
It was the engineers, Arup, who then had to convert the gherkin aesthetic into a feasible building, producing the triangular "diagrid" that now encases the building and defines the handsome ground floor arcade.
But the conditions at the handsome ground of the Punjab Cricket Association should suit England far more than those they have encountered so far in Rajkot, Kochi and Ranchi, especially in this first ODI to have been played here so early in the year, in the depth of winter.
Bronze casts of other statues are arranged throughout the handsome grounds of the outdoor museum.
The Schoolhouse at Cannondale 34 Cannon Road Wilton (203) 834-9816 www.theschoolhouseatcannondale.com GOOD THE SPACE Handsome ground-level space in well-coordinated dark brown and white, with banquettes on two sides of the dining room.
It's a handsome place, with a ground floor lounge and a second-floor banquet space under that terrace-like dining room on top.
Corcoran Gallery of Art The Corcoran Gallery redeems several recent installation missteps with "The Impressionist Tradition in America," a handsome show in its ground-floor galleries.
Somewhere in the Greek countryside, a wealthy middle-aged businessman and paterfamilias (played by Christos Stergioglou) has a handsome house with beautiful grounds and a gorgeous swimming pool – the upkeep of which this family appears to manage without external help.
Now JOHN McDONALD, an owner of Canteen and Merc Bar, and his partners have opened LEVER HOUSE RESTAURANT on the ground floor, a handsome modern room with a honeycomb theme designed by MARC NEWSON.
Three key facts define Cru: its wine list is world class; its chef, Shea Gallante, is among the most gifted in the city; and its location, on the ground floor of a handsome apartment building a few blocks north of Washington Square, is notorious for the speed with which fine restaurants wither and die there, like exotic plants in unsuitable soil, a phenomenon that Cru seems uncomfortably aware of.
