Word: edwardian
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...city. So sooner or later, anybody who's anybody in the world of business or technology will find themselves paying a visit to Reading. And now they can lodge at the Forbury, a new luxury hotel aimed at the BlackBerry set. Owner Toby Hunter spent $10 million transforming the Edwardian county hall into a place where work meets play. The Forbury has several large meeting rooms, a small cinema for presentations and wi-fi access throughout. It's as grand as a country manor?a chandelier made of 84,000 glass beads shimmers in the stairwell?but with only...
...Owner Toby Hunter spent $10 million transforming the Edwardian county hall into a place where work meets play. The Forbury has several large meeting rooms, a small cinema for presentations and wi-fi access throughout. It's as grand as a country manor - a chandelier made of 84,000 glass beads shimmers in the stairwell - but with only 24 bedrooms, it's cozy, too. "I thought of the things you enjoy when you stay with friends," says Hunter, "whether it's the little touches they put in your room, a great meal or a cold drink on the terrace...
...businesses not because of the spare million in a few fat wallets, he argues, but because of the spare change in a billion slim ones. "Everyone is catering to the top of the pyramid," says the 68-year-old at his office in Bombay House, Tata group's elegant Edwardian headquarters in India's business capital. "The challenge we've given to all our companies is to address a different market. Pare your margins. Create new markets...
...ancestral village 1,000 miles away as home. That sense of a place apart is reinforced by geography and architecture. You cross the sea or an estuary to reach downtown. And once there, you find a tropical British city of Victorian railway stations, Art Deco apartment blocks and Edwardian offices. Christabelle Noronha, a p.r. executive who has lived in the city all her life, says the sense of being in a foreign land gives Bombay an uninhibited air. "If everyone is a stranger, then everyone is free," she says...
...signed copies of his forthcoming new book, "Thunderstruck." Larson is not one to rest on his laurels, even though his last smash hit, "The Devil in the White City," is still on the New York Times paperback list after 118 weeks. His latest nonfiction thriller is set in the Edwardian Age, and includes Marconi, the young inventor of radio. According to Larson's publisher, "A mild-mannered doctor known as 'the kindest of men' kills his wife in horrific fashion and buries her remains in the cellar of their London home. He escapes with the unsuspecting , 'other woman' aboard...