One midsummer evening not long ago, I rang the buzzer of a Holland Park mansion, wedding-cake white with black railings.
In Cartagena, as in the city of Murcia, a sheen of contemporary design overlays grandiose mansions with cake-frosting stucco decoration and curlicue balconies, remnants of an early 20th-century mining boom.
Mrs. Murray opened the wine cellar at the mansion and served cakes and Madeira to the British generals and Governor Tryon, who teased her about her American sympathies...
Driving on Route 20 west of Albany, he and Dr. Ridge, a physician who until September was vice president for healthy living at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, were drawn to a wedding-cake mansion they took to be a museum.
Jurek was gobsmacked by the white wedding-cake mansions this Perivale Polish company was renovating.
The marching rows of doric columns, pedimented porticoes and dentilled cornices that define these imposing ranks of wedding-cake mansions have been joined by an unlikely addition to the classical architectural vocabulary.
Locals say Briatore had actually wanted to move to the Indian Ocean Lodge, a former resort nearby on the water, where, like Gatsby's mansion, it shows up well, a whitewashed wedding cake on a high coral shelf.
Jon Hopkins performs at Let Them Eat Cake on New Year's Day at Werribee Mansion, Australia.
Joint Security Station Thrasher, in the western Baghdad suburb of Ghazaliya, is housed in a Saddam-era mansion with twenty-foot columns and a fountain, now dry, that looks like a layer cake of concrete and limestone.
Swap funnel cakes and spinning tea cups for a tour of Escobar's pimped-out mansion and a visit to the depths of Hell, by way of Singapore.
