The Country House and Others page~
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A front view of Inmedae's French-style renovated 'chateau' in the South of
Adirai. If the Townhouse is his more permenant residence, a showplace as well
as residence, then the country-house retreat is his 'party-house'. It is built
especially for large gatherings, and expresses as much wealth as is humanly
possible (for Inmedae) in one space, and is designed in freedom according to
his personal tastes.
Located in the Vicenés area, provinces of southern Adirai, where the
weather is too his liking-- warm, cool in the fall, and very green in surroundings--
the home boasts fantastic hunting and scenery. It is a working estate comprised
of thousands of acres of grounds, woodlands, gardens, porticos, promenades,
boating lakes and recreational boathouses, elegant stables, a small outdoor
amphitheater, greenhouses, granaries, and a small farming village nearby, which
pays tax directly to Inmedae. The home has its own small theater, chapel, indoor-tennis
court, and golfing-green adjacent. When Inmedae spends three to four months
of the year here (usually parts of fall or spring, as he is in the townouse
year-round otherwise, excepting visits to France in winter and sometimes summer)
he'll move his entire staff to the house when changing. His biggest parties
(usually lasting over a week) are held here. He is famed, after all, for fantastic
two-week-long annual hunting parties, where over two hundred of the highest
of European society converge.
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The courtyard-side of the private wing of the country house, with the entrance to the courtyard gardens. The topmost floor, with round windows, is the bedroom of Inmedae (and normally, Sites). Notice the 'M' monogram further up-- for Menanceté, of course.
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The stately, gilded carriage gates signaling the entrance to the country house's grand estate.
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The staircase leading to the personal wing of the country house-- very much in the formal style of Inmedae. His personal style mainly consists of small rooms with a closed-in feel-- many knick-knacks, comfortable furniture, rococo architecture and art, pale feminine colors as well as reds, flowers and much drapes, a combination of Parisian and Italian design-- but this interior expresses his socially apparant taste for extravagance.
One of the many 'avenues' on the extensive grounds of the house.
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A painting of a boating-lake on the country house's grounds. Notice the pavilions, used at times for candle-lit parties and firework-viewings.
The small, private 'vacation' villa on the Vicenés property, only inhabited by Meneanceté and his closest friends, and often family. (Of course, only those whom he likes-- as he isn't too partial to family.)
Inmedae's little 'villa-on-the-beach', on the Elgéan coast in southern Adirai, which is used exclusively by he and Sites as a 'getaway' house. It is two stories-high and modest, elegant and very intimate. The beach is directly in back; the side in the photo.
The red parlor in the beach house. The rooms contained in it are: one parlor, a small dining room, two bedrooms, one dressing room/bathroom, a library/billiard room, and the kitchens/servant quarters below.
The cozy main bedroom, for Sites and Inmedae, in the beach house.
The other bedroom in the beach house.
A corner of the dressing room in the beach house.
Inmedae's constantly-rented house outside Paris. He basically owns it, but never bought it. Used along with a sometimes-rented townhouse in the city, when he visits France.
The area in Paris in which Inmedae's "modest"-but-elegant rented Parisian townhouse is situated. Sumptuous, and overlooking the River Seine.
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