Buiten Verwagten Guesthouse is a tranquil oasis set in a formal Victorian garden, with antique furniture and cool colour schemes in its rooms and garden suites.

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The grounds include a formal sunken garden that the family used as a volleyball court when their children were young, a carriage house that doubles as a game room and a gazebo.

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Traditionally, a formal, summer garden-party dress did two things: it looked light and uplifting, while keeping all the bits one might generally expose to the sun covered.

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Cezayir, tucked into a cul- de-sac within the Soho-esque antiques shopping district Cukurcuma, is a 19th-century former school building housing several environments--a garden, an informal lounge, a formal dining room with teal walls and an ornate chandelier.

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The kitchen and formal dining room overlook the building's private garden and there are other views of a landscaped churchyard.

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Because Cox favors techniques and plantings gleaned from many epochs, cultures and movements, he has a bigger, more flexible design vocabulary than garden designers known specifically for their modernist, French-formal or romantic English leanings Cox likes it all.

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