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Made of oak, ash and canvas, rooms are decorated in French shabby-chic style.
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Whether it was the tippling yuppies fighting for the right to bring their children into a bar, or the fools camped out at the Tea Lounge -- our local, perhaps ironically titled, coffee shop -- for hours on end, clinging to the shabby-chic secondhand sofas like mold, each one somehow with a new Apple laptop that costs more than my car.
David Serchuk: New York City Apartment Hell Pt. 1 David Serchuk 2011
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The interiors are equal parts shabby-chic and sparse, but baths boast Philippe Starck fixtures and hot tubs.
Potpourri-Free B&Bs Steve Garbarino 2011
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The accommodation is not giant megaliths but rather shabby-chic places catering to a mostly western crowd.
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Simon didn't break off midway through the pie to grate in a frozen pig's ear which he had found in the back of a pastel-coloured American-style freezer, before serving it to a gang of fragrant, compliant houseguests in a mansion lit only by fairylights, neon electric Elvis statues and shabby-chic altar candles.
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Whether it was the tippling yuppies fighting for the right to bring their children into a bar, or the fools camped out at the Tea Lounge -- our local, perhaps ironically titled, coffee shop -- for hours on end, clinging to the shabby-chic secondhand sofas like mold, each one somehow with a new Apple laptop that costs more than my car.
David Serchuk: New York City Apartment Hell Pt. 1 David Serchuk 2011
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It's a sweet little place, our shop, trés shabby-chic.
Swastika Susan Tepper 2011
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These beautifully designed, shabby-chic theatrical gems are a far cry from Mr. Norman's former working environment, as director of operations for Caprice Holdings, which owns several of London's most successful and glitziest restaurants, including the Ivy, the Caprice, J.
Success on Small Plates Bruce Palling 2011
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But Sternberg's masterfully conjured fantasy squalor, a shabby-chic world distinctly his own, leaves an even deeper impression.
Master of the Mise-en-Scène David Mermelstein 2011
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Canvas Chic Made of oak, ash and canvas, rooms are decorated in a French shabby-chic style.
A Yurting Experience 2011
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