#grandes villas

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Mudroom - Hall Inspiration for a large contemporary marble floor and white floor entryway remodel with white walls and a metal front door

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Contemporary Living Room - Loft-Style Large trendy loft-style living room photo with a tv stand, white walls, and a marble floor.

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Deck Rooftop Ideas for a sizable, modern rooftop outdoor shower deck renovation with an awning

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Deck Rooftop

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Porte d'entrée de la Villa Majorelle, Nancy, FRANCE

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La Ferrari 375 MM Berlinetta Coupé Special Pinin Farina de 1954 d'Ingrid Bergman garée devant le Grand Hôtel Villa Serbelloni sur le lac de Côme, en Italie. - source Gentleman's Journal.

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From May, 2024

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The Transformers: Untold Marvels - "Swashbuckling With Grandslam"

Originally posted on January 20th, 2014

Story, Art - Joe Teanby Letters, Edits - Franco Villa

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Later revised and annotated for The Transformers: Untold Marvels

wada sez: Created just for fun by Teanby, this strip is inspired by the bizarre pirate-centric backstory for Grand Slam and Raindance in the Marvel issue “Club Con!”. Per Teanby: “I found it so ridiculous (yet awesome!) that Grandslam and Raindance would end up in a Pirates treasure chest... there just had to be a story in there.” It was later adopted by Villa for Untold Marvels, and I’ve decided to include it in the archive for that reason, as it’s a one-page strip in the usual Mosaic style. See below for clean inks.

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Danielle Savre at the Grand Hotel Villa Serbolloni's 150th anniversary (x)

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Photographs: 1. Grand Duke Mikhail Nicholayevich and his wife, Grand Duchess Olga Fyodorovna, with their two eldest children, Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich and Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna; 2 and 3: Anastasia as a young girl; 4 and 5: Anastasia as a young woman. In one of the photos, she is wearing Russian court dress; 6. Anastasia with her brother Grand Duke Mikhail Mikhailovich (Miche-Miche); 7. Anastasia with her brother Grand Duke Georgiy Mikhailovich; 8. Anastasia with her brother Grand Duke Sergei Mikhailovichl 9. Anastasia with her youngest brother, who died at twenty, Grand Duke Alexis Mikhailovich; 10. Anastasia with her brother Grand Duke Alexander "Sandro" Mikhailovich; 11. Anastasia with her niece Princess Irina Alexandrovna; 12 and 13; Two photos of Anastasia with her fiancee/husband Grand Duke Frederick Francis III of Mecklenburg-Schwerin; 14. Anastasia with her three children; 15 and 16: Two pictures of Anastasia; 17: Anastasia's three children and their spouses: From left to right: Her daughter Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin with the future King Christian X of Denmark, Her son, Frederick Francis IV with Alexandra of Hanover and Cumberland, and her daughter Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin with Crown Prince Wilhelm; 18. Her illegitimate son Alexis Louis de Wenden; 19: Villa Wenden in Nice; 20. The formidable Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna.

The other Anastaisa

Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna was born in 1860, the second child and only daughter of Grand Duke Mikhail Nicholaevich and Grand Duchess Olga Feodorovna (nee Princess Cecilie of Baden.) Anastasia was a granddaughter of Nicholas I. The better-known Anastasia (the daughter of Nicholas II) would be born a little over a half-century later, promising to be just as indomitable as her predecessor (she did not have the chance to fulfill that promise.)

Stasi (as her brothers called Anastasia Mikhailovna) was her father's favorite child. Her brothers worshipped her. Her mother was the disciplinarian of the house. The boys were allowed to see their sister only on Sundays.

Anastasia married Frederick Francis III, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, at 19. Frederick Francis was Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna, the Elder's brother. He had very poor health throughout his life; he had asthma and multiple allergies and rashes, and he needed to live during extended periods in the warmer climate of the Mediterranean rather than in Northern Europe; this was just fine with Anastasia, who would never adjust to her adoptive country or gain the affection of the people there. The couple established Villa Wenden in the South of France, and she would live in that area of the world most of her life. Frederick's homosexuality was known throughout Europe, but the couple seemed to have gotten along well. Anastasia spent lavishly at the casinos, and Frederick Francis was glad to provide her with the funds. When the Grand Duke died, she said: "On this day, I have lost my best friend."

They had three children, and all married very well:

Duchess Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1879 –1952); married King Christian X of Denmark. They had two sons.

Frederick Francis IV, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1882 –1945), married Princess Alexandra of Hanover and Cumberland. They had five children.

Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1886 –1954.) She married Wilhelm, the German Crown Prince. They had six children.

Up to the death of her husband, Anastasia's life had transcurred without scandal. However, a few years later, she began an affair with Vladimir Alexandrovitch Paltov, her secretary. She soon became pregnant by him and attempted to hide that fact by claiming she was suffering from a tumor. She claimed to have chickenpox when she delivered the child. Her son, Alexis Louis de Wenden, was born in Nice in 1902. She was able to bring him up herself and wrote to him daily when he was away at school. After the scandal became public, she was advised never to live near her daughter, now the Crown Princess of Germany (she was given special permission to visit her daughter for the birth of her first grandson.)

After her father had a stroke, he went to live with Stasi in Villa Wenden. As the senior member of the Romanov clan, "Uncle Misha" received many visitors, including the Tsar. At least one of her brothers was in residence at Villa Wenden at any given time. When her father died in 1909, Anastasia inherited an enormous fortune. She continued to live as she wished, gambling heavily, going to the theater, and dancing.

World War I split the family apart. Her son was the reigning Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, her daughter was the German Emperor's daughter-in-law, she was a Russian Grand Duchess, and her Russian family was fighting on the opposite side. She settled in neutral Switzerland. The war cost her son and daughter their (prospective) crowns. After the war, she returned to Nice. There she founded a charity to help Russian exiles. Vladimir Paltov was the charity's president, perhaps indicating that the relationship continued. She lived in Villa Fantasia in Eze, which is near Cannes.

Anastasia died suddenly after suffering a stroke in 1922. She rests in Ludwigslust next to her husband. All of her children have living descendants today, including her illegitimate son. She certainly lived as she wished. Which is something that the other Anastasia would have probably done should she have been given the chance.

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Marseille. Après avoir visité la réplique de la Grotte Cosquer dans la Villa Méditerranée, on passe au musée :voici le diorama 3D : “la Grotte de l’Os”, avec les Grands Pingouins, les Mégacéros, les chevaux et les Calanques à l’époque, au niveau marin bien plus bas que maintenant.

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13 aprile, recanati: "né di sospiri è degna la terra" - giacomo leopardi e carmelo bene

@ Museo Villa Colloredo Mels via Gregorio XII – Recanati     Né di sospiri è degna la terra. Carmelo Bene/Giacomo Leopardi. Dal 13 aprile (ore 17:00), alla Torre del Borgo di Recanati, un’imperdibile mostra di fotografie inedite, curata da Andrea Balietti e Claudio Fazzini, racconterà l’incontro tra Giacomo Leopardi e Carmelo Bene. https://www.facebook.com/events/1172401840795942 12 Settembre…

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Ruins of the Grand Hotel and a Villa in Saint-Gabriel-Plage after the violent 1912 storm, Picardy region of France

French vintage postcard

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