From the Mar/Apr 2008 Issue

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Ten Reasons to Love the Fasano Rio

What’s in Store?

As malls bloom and the economy quivers, one can’t help but ask, Where’s the “real” retail reality. Read More
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Two in Tel Aviv

Authentic Tokyo, 2008

Amid the glass-and-steel sheen, there are still parts of the city where one can feel Japan’s handmade quality. Read More
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Safe Keeping

Jungle Lab

Paris correspondent Elisabeth Franck-Dumas speaks with Chanel’s beauty anthropologist, Xavier Ormancey, who travels to remote locales in search of rare, potent botanicals. Read More
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Deià, Spain

Majorca has one private corner that to this day remains worthy of the chic and stylish. Read More
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The “Other” Marais

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Restaurant Row

For Hong Kong’s most fashionable, a tiny strip of Wyndham Street is the latest place to play. Read More
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Turkish Delight

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E-mail from Greece

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The Bee’s Knees

The Grand Hotel Refreshed

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Great Barrier Relief

Mastering the Art of Gumbo

On a recent trip to the Crescent City, Reggie Nadelson is saddened by Katrina’s lingering effects but finds comfort in good friends and great gumbo. Read More

Shanghai Express

This city moves so quickly that every time I leave for a few weeks, I come back to find a whole new world of restaurants. And because my friends always tell all their friends to ask my advice about where to eat in Shanghai, I have... Read More

A Deconstruction

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Stockholm Style

Our intrepid couple heads north to investigate what’s so cool about the trippy Nordic Light and Nordic Sea hotels. Read More

Amenity We Love: Spa on the Go

Radio.com

Frida Giannini

Now entering her third year as the company’s sole creative director, Gucci’s top designer talks food, fashion, fragrance, and more. Read More
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Breakfast of Champions

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Edsel Ford’s Forgotten Custom Coupe

Culture Watch

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Fragments of Imagination

A self-described nerd with a contrarian streak, painter Amy Sillman hits her stride on the hard road to abstraction. Read More
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Richard Howorth, Square Books

Q&A with Susanna Moore

Heady Stuff

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Golden Eye

With her assured albeit idiosyncratic taste, dealer Jill Quasha built a collection that spans the history of photography—69 images, one per artist. Read More

Writer to Watch

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The French Connection

With his smart, au courant mix of design, art, and fashion, dealer Pierre Passebon seems to be getting things just right. Read More

Dress Code

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The Eccentric

A little Auntie Mame, a bit Marchesa Casati, she believes one bangle is never enough Read More
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A Simpler Time

When it comes to complicated modern timepieces, sometimes it seems that less is definitely more. Read More
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Why I Wear What I Wear: Alberto Tatti

In matters of style, the maître d’ at Amaranth—the bustling, very international boîte on Manhattan’s Upper East Side—stays loyal to his Italian roots. Read More
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“How’s That, Sir?”

Hisham Oumlil gives classic tailoring an international twist. Read More
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What I Saw at the Couture

Crocodile gowns and cocktail rings. Oh my! Patty Hambrecht reports on the gems of Ralph Rucci’s latest collection. Read More
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How Chic It Is!

A Brazilian designer discovers the formula for the world’s most flattering bikini. Read More

Food

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A Vintage Affair

Peter Hellman’s initial encounter with Château Palmer’s mythic 1961 vintage was love at first sip. A quarter century later he finally meets his elusive suitor again. Read More

Very Gingerly

Pickled or sugared, sliced or infused, ginger is the ingredient of the moment—with benefits as great as the dishes it flavors. Read More

Home Front

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The Lights Fantastic

Rich, colorful glazes and handcrafted detail have made Christopher Spitzmiller’s lamps fixtures in all the right places. Read More
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Grand Tour to Go

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Fringe Festival

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Floored!

Bespoke rugmaker Luke Irwin weaves British wit with Nepalese tradition to create a new breed of carpet. Read More
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Scents and Sensibilities

A friend in Rome loves New Zealand peonies. Cousins in Amsterdam adore Ecuadoran roses. From Tokyo to Palm Beach, a global roster of florists that can deliver. Read More

Golf

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Teeing Off at the Edge of the World

After more than a decade, Old Head Golf Links in County Cork is finally a must-play. Read More

Style

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Come Fly With Me!

Since the early days of air travel, flight attendants have provided service, safety, and a dash of glamour. Mark Ellwood meets six who’ve worked the friendly skies long enough to see it all. Read More

Out There

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It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s...a Hotel?

Worldly Goods

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Porcelain Droll

After nearly two decades of designing for distinguished firms, Peter Ting turns to creating clever, fantastical art objects. Read More

Hiring a College Advisor: Bogus or Bonus?

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Puzzling Investments

How an entrepreneur’s beguiling jigsaw creations won a cult following. Read More
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Cloth Encounters

With a well-traveled sensibility and thoroughly modern style, Carolina Irving and Lisa Fine offer up a world of exquisite handmade fabrics. Read More

The Philanthropist

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Saving the Elephants

While writing Travels on My Elephant, intrepid Englishman Mark Shand fell in love with his five-ton amber-eyed companion, Tara. Now he’s made it his mission to save her species. Read More

Features

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Lights, Camera, Action, Ralph!

In his spring collection the talented Mr. Lauren shows that million-dollar companies may be built on fashion’s latest trends, but billion-dollar empires are about much more. Read More
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Starck Beauty

The story of how a design world iconoclast and his beautiful daughter transformed a hotel called Le Meurice. Read More
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Viva Luxe Vegas

A cadre of ambitious developers is attempting to reinvent The Strip as the world’s newest and most over-the-top luxury destination. Stephanie Mansfield antes up in the City of Sin. Read More
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Notting Hill by the Sea

It’s bucolic and charming, and everyone interesting seems to live there. Almost. Dorset native Sophy Roberts reports on the heat and the hyperbole in Britain’s newest fashionable seaside spot. Read More

As I See It

Armed only with a Japanese brush pen and fine Italian paper, Australian illustrator Matthew Martin takes on the world. Read More

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