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estate living; This month brings the exciting debut of Hotel Endsleigh in southwest England's beautiful Devon County.(Hotel Tresanton)(Bovey Castle)(Hotel Review)
Byline: Richard Alleman
Built in the early 1800s as the hunting and fishing lodge of the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, Endsleigh was designed by Sir Jeffrey Wyatville with gardens by Humphry Repton. Endsleigh remained in the duke's family until the 1960s, when it was sold and became a private fishing club. By the time it went back on the market in 2002, it had become a white elephant. To the rescue came hotelier Olga Polizzi, who in 1997 had turned an unprepossessing sailing club in St. Mawes into the stylish Hotel Tresanton.
Polizzi and her daughter Alex, who now runs the hotel, virtually gutted the main house while taking great care to preserve many of its details, including some of the original hand-painted wallpapers. "I wanted to respect the architecture and the spirit of the house but also do something unexpected," Polizzi says, "so I jollied things up a bit with 1930s brightly colored fabrics, modern sculptures and pictures, and ...
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- Magazine article from: Town & Country Gardner, Anthony March 1, 2006 700+ words
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- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times March 19, 2005 700+ words
...still cool, but sitting by a fire in Bovey Castle with a cup of tea, currant scones...gradual climb to the final hole behind Bovey Castle. The Bowden enters the Bovey at the...It is a pleasant downhill walk from Bovey Castle, but when ordering a pint or two...
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- Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) July 4, 2009 700+ words
...being a doctor or a lawyer." But hotels were in her blood, and she and husband Marcus Miller now own their own, the Hotel Endsleigh in Devon, as well as running a wholesale bakers in London. They also have a one-year-old daughter, Olga, so life...
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- Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England) September 10, 2009 700+ words
...William Shawcross, has a new spring in her step. A year ago, with the recession at full throttle, she reluctantly put her Hotel Endsleigh in Devon on the market. But now the 16-room hotel on the edge of Dartmoor is back in the Forte fold -- and Olga is delighted...
