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“OUR QUEEN IS DEAD. LONG LIVE OUR QUEEN.”

The announcement on @dorphotel of the unexpected death of its creator was a hammer to the heart for her followers. Gail Behr, the maverick hotelier who worked with fabrics and plants like artists do with paint, an impresario who conjured up a theatre-like experience on the terraced garden carved

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