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Jan/Feb-2007
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.
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Ronnie Scott’s
Robuchon’s Great Leap Forward
The World According to Charlie Rose
Journalist and Television host
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Man of the Cloth
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.
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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.
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Zen and the Art of Spa Architecture
Cutting-edge design comes to the world of soft touches.
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Lotions, Potions, and Serums
The next great advances in antiaging are coming from the lab.
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Maiden Voyage
The women behind Mayflower Spa chart a personalized path to relaxation for each client.
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Ojai? Oh, Yeah!
Where California’s leading men go to rejuvenate.
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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.
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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.
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The Newest Energy Drink? H2O
For Men Only
Skin Care That Won’t Make Your Skin Crawl
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Fresh Starts
Spas too new to review but worth noting.
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Face to Face
At Home vs. At the Spa
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The Ultimate Home Spa
How to transform your house into a true sanctuary.
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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.
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Ryu-Jitsu: Machine Meets Massage
The Perfect Gym for the Fashionably Fit
The latest exercise equipment combines high design with high definition.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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The Cult of the Ski Instructor
Forget maharishis and personal stylists. This winter it’s downhill racing with Mr. Wonderful.
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