In the suburbs of Paris, magic is made in the Louvre’s little-known ateliers, writes Elaine Sciolino in this excerpt from her ...

In 1594, a newly ordained young cardinal, Odoardo Farnese – the recent beneficiary of a tremendous fortune – commissioned the ...

The kitchen island is made from fieldstones and a large skylight is positioned over the dining table The building is laid out in a T shape, with two bedroom wings on either side of the central ...

A ceiling-mounted ... wall anchors with wings that expand once inside the wall to help distribute weight more broadly and evenly across the backside of drywall or plaster. Some may claim they ...

The orientation is based on the classic Texas dogtrot design, where an open breezeway sends cooling air into the two wings of the house ... beams running across the ceiling are replete with ...

Startled faces of saints and apostles, painted a millennium ago, peered out at us where the plaster had been removed ... A chain was suspended from the ceiling, like the one to which Bishoi ...

For the past three decades 8,000 pounds of fiberglass has been "sounding" from the ceiling in the Life in ... paleontologists and numerous barrels of plaster of paris to a whaling station at ...

The building is laid out in a T shape, with two bedroom wings on either side of the ... pale textured plaster walls and ceiling, and a skylight over the centre of the space. The sequence of ...

This often involves opening up walls or ceiling voids to allow an area to ... few of the most common pests you may see after a storm: Plaster beetles, so-named when plaster was more common ...

Stuffed birds sit atop a cupboard, while a stuffed black crow with flapping wings looks as if it is about ... the much grander atelier with floor-to-ceiling windows facing north.

From the lobby, a sculpted, white Venetian plaster staircase spirals down to the garden courtyard ... such as the 30 sqm Urban Luxe room, where floor-to-ceiling windows offer views of the city and the ...