Sentence examples for villa restored from inspiring English sources
THE BASICS This luxury boutique hotel is set within the freshly stuccoed walls of a 19th-century villa restored by local artisans who collaborated with the French architect Jacques Grange.
Better to follow the example of Balthazar Getty, the poster boy for dynastic wealth, who, after exorcising his hereditary demons, can finally kick back and enjoy La Posta Vecchia, the luxurious 17th-century villa restored by his great-grandfather, J. Paul Getty.
He spent nearly five years refurbishing the villa, restoring the stables and the ancient frescoes, and filling the grand rooms with museum-quality art and antiques: marble statues and Flemish tapestries, as well as a gilded 15th-century bed and a carved dowry chest belonging to Maria de' Medici.
On Anguilla, the palatial Cap Juluca is scheduled to take its first guests on Saturday, with the white sands outside its elegant white Moorish-style villas restored.
The historic villa was restored in 1998 by Briton Gillies Turle, who leads yoga classes there twice a day.
The villa was restored in the 1990s and the facade was redone a few months ago by a Florentine doctor who has owned the property since the 1980s.
Wandering through the old quarter, a mélange of Soviet, Thai, Lao and French architecture, I'm struck by how much the place has blossomed over the past couple of years thanks to increased investment; with old French villas tastefully restored as boutique hotels, and almost every conceivable kind of cuisine from Japanese to contemporary Lao.
My wife and I recently spent a week in Umbria, Italy, in a gorgeous restored villa not far from Lake Trasimeno.
He then proceeded to buy a Le Corbusier-influenced villa, which he restored initially into a vacation home and then, in 2006 — a hotel.
Xi Garden One of my favorite meals when I visited Shanghai last winter was at Xi Garden, a beautifully restored villa in the French concession along Huaihai Road.
In his men's outlet store, which is in a villa he has restored, the knitwear is stacked incongruously on the countertop of a fully equipped kitchen, above a dishwasher.
