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  • I am planning to create a series of large airy salons adorned with painted ceilings and gilt boiseries, replant the gardens and restock the lakes, build glasshouses to grow tropical fruits never yet to be tasted on our shores, and, in short, make it the envy of all Europe—including the French—I suppose especially the French.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • I am planning to create a series of large airy salons adorned with painted ceilings and gilt boiseries, replant the gardens and restock the lakes, build glasshouses to grow tropical fruits never yet to be tasted on our shores, and, in short, make it the envy of all Europe—including the French—I suppose especially the French.

    Exit the Actress Priya Parmar 2011

  • The dining room includes a 17th-century carved stone buffet as well as decadent boiseries and double beverage-cooling fountains.

    Showcase Chateau 2006

  • These old boiseries were all removed when the château was sold.

    Chateau and Country Life in France Mary Alsop King Waddington

  • The sumptuous, lofty rooms, with their perfect Louis XV gilt _boiseries_, the marvellous clothes of the women, the gaiety in the air!

    The Price of Things Elinor Glyn 1903

  • The luminous salon/living room, decorated with striking red boiseries and a Louis XV stone fireplace, runs from the front of the house to the back.

    NYT > Home Page By JEAN RAFFERTY 2011

  • Le restaurant, d’environ 40 places, est peint en jaune ocre avec boiseries noires.

    Archive 2008-10-01 Oleg Kuzin 2008

  • Le restaurant, d’environ 40 places, est peint en jaune ocre avec boiseries noires.

    Simply Delicious/La gastronomie Simple Oleg Kuzin 2008

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