From the Jan/Feb 2007 Issue

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Cake Walk

A Castle to Call Home

Your Own Soundtrack

Life Line

Grape Expectations

E-mail Dispatch: Shanghai

Euro Stars

Screenplay: Venice

Our intrepid couple finds sweet solitude and romance at the Bauer Palladio Hotel & Spa on the forgotten island of Giudecca. Read More

Ronnie Scott’s

Robuchon’s Great Leap Forward

The World According to Charlie Rose

Journalist and Television host Read More

Bali Like You’ve Never Seen It

The Trend Index

Mastering the Art of Spaghetti

She’s a peripatetic gourmet, an epicurean, and a culinary bon vivant—but she didn’t know how to cook. Until now. In the first column of an ongoing series, Reggie Nadelson seeks help from a real master of the kitchen. Read More

Grand Plans for 2007

Pasture Meets Posture

The It Color

Culture Watch

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The Art of Après-Ski

St. Moritz, the storied Swiss Alpine playground, has a brand-new game. Read More

Dress Code

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High Tee

Not since Katharine Hepburn and Jackie O took to the links has women’s golf fashion looked this good. Read More

Home Front

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Plush Life

Travel

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At the Edge of The World

Worldly Goods

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Material Comfort: Smart Advice for Smart People

Lesson 1: How to Buy Luxury Insurance. Read More
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Man of the Cloth

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Night Watch

The Patek Philippe is sublime, but that Rolex Submariner doesn’t look bad with black tie either, even if the wettest thing in sight is a dry martini. Read More

Consuming Passions

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Balm

Strange—occasionally embarrassing—confessions of a first-time male spa-goer. Read More

Zen and the Art of Spa Architecture

Cutting-edge design comes to the world of soft touches. Read More

Lotions, Potions, and Serums

The next great advances in antiaging are coming from the lab. Read More

Maiden Voyage

The women behind Mayflower Spa chart a personalized path to relaxation for each client. Read More

Ojai? Oh, Yeah!

Where California’s leading men go to rejuvenate. Read More

Where Are the Best Trained Massage Therapists?

Just Say Om

In this age of anxiety sometimes a massage just isn’t enough. Five überexclusive yoga sanctuaries offer a kind of serenity not found anywhere else. Read More

Day Spas

Men still queasy about the spa experience can take comfort in these alternatives, which run the gamut from hi-tech barbershop to men-only sanctuary. —D.J.C. Read More

The Newest Energy Drink? H2O

For Men Only

Skin Care That Won’t Make Your Skin Crawl Read More

Fresh Starts

Spas too new to review but worth noting. Read More

Face to Face

At Home vs. At the Spa Read More

The Ultimate Home Spa

How to transform your house into a true sanctuary. Read More

Beauty Buzz: Pure Lipcolor

Perfect Pedicures

Come for the Scrub, Stay for the Bubbly

Populated by hipsters seeking libations as much as inner harmony, health havens are staying open well past six—turning their day spas into nighttime lounge scenes. Read More

Ryu-Jitsu: Machine Meets Massage

The Perfect Gym for the Fashionably Fit

The latest exercise equipment combines high design with high definition. Read More

Features

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Eye of Newt and Toe of Frog

Tucked away in a quiet English village, perfumer Richard Howard creates the most extravagant concoctions from the most incredible ingredients on earth. A drop of dragon’s blood, anyone? Rhoda Koenig reports. Read More

Spa Food Gets a Makeover

The days of brown rice and steamed kale are over. On Charlie Trotter’s spa menu there’s even room for beef tenderloin. But as Norman Vanamee discovers, calorie-cutting cuisine may be the toughest challenge this celebrated chef has... Read More
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The Healing Power of India

The age-old practice of ayurveda has been reinterpreted in Western terms at spas from Miami to Mexico. But is this self-help, feel-good version really what it’s all about? Anne Marie Gardner travels to the source. Read More
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The Cult of the Ski Instructor

Forget maharishis and personal stylists. This winter it’s downhill racing with Mr. Wonderful. Read More

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