Have they finally built a private Wacky Warehouse for millionaires?

Parents will know all too well the stress of taking their children to the playground, with its often chaotic atmosphere.

Well, we may have found the solution – a playground in your own home.

From the outside, this modern Georgian-style home, set back on a private drive in the leafy Cheshire countryside, may not seem all that surprising. But you won’t believe what’s inside.

With this Nether Ald… (View original article)

A 2-in-1 mansion belonging to a former World Bank vice president is back on the market for $8 million

May 21, 2016 10:00AM

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Business Insider

A Washington, DC, mansion belonging to Moeen Qureshi — former interim Prime Minister of Pakistan and a former vice president of the World Bank — is back on the market.

The home, which Qureshi originally purchased as two separate properties and combined into one, has been on and off the market at various lis… (View original article)

I should hate the Palais Stoclet, the house Josef Hoffmann designed in 1905 for the Belgian Banker Adolphe Stoclet in Brussels. From the street, it presents a gray façade hiding behind hedges, its windows seeming to begrudge any view either way. Inside, its beauty comes from a combination of geometry that is so present you feel as if you are in a cage. It is a gilded cage, however. In fact, every inch of every surface in the Stoclet—carried out by the artists of the Wiener Wertkstatte—is… (View original article)

C’est une démarche inédite: le bourgmestre de Woluwe-Saint-Pierre, Benoît Cerexhe (cdH) vient d’envoyer un courrier officiel aux héritiers Stoclet afin d’organiser une réunion sur le devenir du Palais Stoclet. Ce chef d’œuvre Art nouveau sis avenue de Tervueren, sur le territoire de Woluwe-Saint-Pierre justement, est inoccupé depuis le décès de la baronne Anny Stoclet. C’était en juin 2002. Jusqu’à aujourd’hui, selon toutes vraisemblances, les lieux sont vides. Tout au plus y séjournerait u… (View original article)