"It's kind of just a romantic, roaming-around-the-mansion type thing".
"In a place like Greenwich, they do lots of teardowns in order to build new mansion-type homes," he said.
But the Spanish theatres were always rectangular; their stages were always smaller; and their use of medieval mansion-type scenery was more extensive than the English theatres.
"The beauty is that you can afford to get in at $600,000, and you also have beautiful mansion-type homes that go for $5 million or more," said Vera Capozucca, a broker at Fillmore.com.com
The buildings are of the low- to mid-rise high-density mansion block type that offers more housing (and therefore more affordable housing) than the RMG scheme, as well as better quality public spaces.
Initially, in the 12th century, the cycles were presented on a series of decorated platforms known as houses or mansions, following the type of layout established in the liturgical drama, with each representing a particular location.
She is a beautiful young woman who is whiling away a baking hot summer in the grounds of her family's spectacular Brideshead-type mansion, at one point sporting an impossibly white bathing costume and pristine matching hat fastened under the chin, sprawled on the diving board like an Anglo-Saxon Esther Williams.
Davis ordered two custom-made costumes of Prince Hans and Princess Anna from the movie and then found a castle-type mansion called Castle Marne Inn where he could get on one knee (a tough find in Denver, Colorado where the couple lives).
The stunning property looks like the type of mansion you'd expect to find in London, except for one thing.
Each room in the labyrinthine century-old mansion houses a different type of craft, from jewelry and picture frames to lamps and leatherwork from more than 1,000 different local artists.
But you don't have to hand some money manager enough cash to build a new wing on a Greenwich mansion to get this type of performance.
