It would have been grand to traipse down to the Edwardian Room for dinner.
This description could equally fit Edwardian Britain on the eve of World War I and America today.
Parker Guest House is the Castro district's most stately gay- and straight-friendly digs occupying two Edwardian mansions.
Barrie, creator of Peter Pan and Neverland, also wrote intelligent comedies for adults confounded by the fast-changing Edwardian era.
The family dynamic at our favorite Edwardian country home certainly has changed since the start of the Roaring '20s.
Kaplan means to rehabilitate the sort of geography associated with certain Victorian and Edwardian scholars, especially the British historian Halford J.
House and shooting parties are still hosted but are not held on the same scale as their counterparts during Edwardian times.
Bawden plays the downtrodden Edwardian flower girl, whom a haughty phonetics professor attempts to pass off as an upper class lady.
As part of the restoration, features will be restored at the Green in Silloth, including the Victorian Pagoda and Edwardian public toilets.
Alice Adams and Tibor Vass, both 20, were discovered at premises behind the Radisson Edwardian Heathrow Hotel, west London, where they worked.
An Edwardian barbershop quartet sings "God Only Knows" by the Beach Boys.
The Edwardian theatre looks as if it might have escaped but there is water pouring out of pipes coming from the entrance.
Other elements of the revamp have been the Edwardian toilets, which were derelict, an adventure play area, improved lighting and new park furniture.
The university spent hundreds of thousands of pounds trying to incorporate the Edwardian facade in its plans, but concluded it was not feasible.
Just look at the exuberant tiling in the Kenilworth (nicholsonspubs.co.uk), Edinburgh's top gay hangout when I lived there - still deliciously camp thanks to exuberant Edwardian bedizening.
Then it, in turn, became prized, and Edwardian housing was condemned.
Julian Barnes' novel was overwritten quite deliberately, aping the Edwardian style.
After all, what better way to glimpse inside the strange word of Edwardian literary society than through the bizarre, and often spooky, life of J.
Semi-hidden at Odins among lush Art Nouveau lamps and mirrors, portraits of Edwardian society beauties and academic landscapes, are works by Messrs Proctor, Kitaj and Hockney.
This nonjudgmental embrace of the highborn life has exposed the show to the criticism, leveled widely, that it celebrates Edwardian opulence without due regard for the period's inequities.
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The Explorers Club was founded in 1904 to support scientific exploration--and also, one suspects, to give its Edwardian-era members an excuse to pursue fascinating adventures in exotic places.
"Although she always painted, her distinctive narrative style developed later in life when she wanted to show her grandchildren what life was like in her Edwardian childhood, " he said.
Films and series about Edwardian upper caste manners which portray the genteels uncharitably are boring, like the steady, unending (until one turns the switch off) hum of a fluorescent lamp.
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Behind the table and raised up as if on thrones, sit the young president, secretary, librarian and treasurer of the Union, all looking like Edwardian dandies in white tie and tails.
In June 2000, raiders forced open the front gate of her multi-million pound Edwardian London home, and broke into the gardener's quarters, without being able to get into the main house.
Some have Georgian-style details and some look more Edwardian.
It was, according to Ms Donovan, John's son Reginald and daughter Florence who moved with their parents to Dyffryn in 1891 who were responsible for shaping the estate into its Edwardian grandeur.
They were designed around 1930 by Fulco Santostefano della Cerda, Duke of Verdura, for Coco Chanel (both in picture, above), using stones from Edwardian and Victorian jewelry given to her by various lovers.
With no means of communicating with the outside world, and no other human beings within thousands of miles, this was the Edwardian equivalent of an Apollo moon shot, but one that lasted years, not months.
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