When ripe these wash rind cheeses have a distinctive smell and luscious creamy interiors.
He was responsible for the addition of one of the most important rococo interiors in Scotland.
During the 1980s, The World of Interiors magazine created the term "shabby chic" to describe this unique style.
A carved wooden Buddha overlooks the shaded central garden courtyard, which is surrounded by eight rooms with canopy beds and colonial-style interiors.
Interiors were then divided into smaller rooms by means of sliding doors covered with thin rice-paper, which permitted the passage of light while obstructing vision; the hanging lattices were replaced by wooden doors which could be slid along a groove so as to be removable in the daytime, and an alcove was added in the principal chamber for a sacred picture or Buddhist image to serve as an object of contemplation for a devotee while practising the rite of abstraction.
