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Mar/Apr-2008
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.
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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.
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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.
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Deià, Spain
Majorca has one private corner that to this day remains worthy of the chic and stylish.
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The “Other” Marais
Restaurant Row
For Hong Kong’s most fashionable, a tiny strip of Wyndham Street is the latest place to play.
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Turkish Delight
E-mail from Greece
The Bee’s Knees
The Grand Hotel Refreshed
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.
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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...
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A Deconstruction
Stockholm Style
Our intrepid couple heads north to investigate what’s so cool about the trippy
Nordic Light
and
Nordic Sea
hotels.
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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.
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Breakfast of Champions
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.
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Richard Howorth, Square Books
Q&A with Susanna Moore
Heady Stuff
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.
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Writer to Watch
The French Connection
With his smart, au courant mix of design, art, and fashion, dealer Pierre Passebon seems to be getting things just right.
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Dress Code
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The Eccentric
A little Auntie Mame, a bit Marchesa Casati, she believes one bangle is never enough
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A Simpler Time
When it comes to complicated modern timepieces, sometimes it seems that less is definitely 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.
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“How’s That, Sir?”
Hisham Oumlil gives classic tailoring an international twist.
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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.
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How Chic It Is!
A Brazilian designer discovers the formula for the world’s most flattering bikini.
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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.
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Very Gingerly
Pickled or sugared, sliced or infused, ginger is the ingredient of the moment—with benefits as great as the dishes it flavors.
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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.
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Grand Tour to Go
Fringe Festival
Floored!
Bespoke rugmaker Luke Irwin weaves British wit with Nepalese tradition to create a new breed of carpet.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Hiring a College Advisor: Bogus or Bonus?
Puzzling Investments
How an entrepreneur’s beguiling jigsaw creations won a cult following.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Starck Beauty
The story of how a design world iconoclast and his beautiful daughter transformed a hotel called Le Meurice.
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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.
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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.
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As I See It
Armed only with a Japanese brush pen and fine Italian paper, Australian illustrator Matthew Martin takes on the world.
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