Interiors are just as good; a warm rustic style mixes beautifully with original timbers and old stone walls.
Sophia McDougall's "Golden Apple" is a beautifully paced, original and affecting story of the lengths to which the loving parents of an ailing girl will go to to aid her recovery.
The judges, who include Charles Goodhart, a economist who specializes in monetary issues, and Derek Scott, a former adviser to Prime Minister Tony Blair, seem to have been particularly taken with submission of Catherine Dobbs, a former analyst at Gartmore, the British fund management company, describing her effort as beautifully clean, original and elegant.
Fabio Ferzetti, the chief film critic of the Italian daily Il Messaggero, says: "There are likely to be more and more films by female directors in main competition in the A-list festivals, simply because films directed by the new generation of women tend, in my opinion, to be particularly beautifully crafted, original and sensual.
Beautifully preserved original details such as a bronze front gate, exterior balustrade, mahogany paneling in the dining room and neoclassical marble fireplaces give the residence glamour; conveniences like an elevator and central air make it comfortable.
It was a deeply familiar dish, beautifully rendered: the original article, not a knockoff.
It sleeps 10 in four bedrooms and is beautifully designed, combining original wood beams and exposed stone walls with bright modern furnishings.
But there are other examples -- I happen to live in a building blessed with one -- in which the bonus park beautifully fulfills its original concept.
Many of the essays in "My Year of Flops" probably worked beautifully in their original form, as smart online bonbons, something to click on for a 10-minute break from work.
Novelist Top of anyone's reading pile should be two beautifully written and original recent English novels – Will Cohu's Nothing But Grass (Chatto & Windus £16.99) and Melissa Harrison's At Hawthorn Time (Bloomsbury £12.99), which kept me awake until 3.30am.
