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...shop's longevity - apart from its quality trims - was the decision by Giacalone's son, Italo, in 1922 to refit his dad's shop in glorious Art Deco stained glass, glittering mirrorwork Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder and traditional white tiles. Fondo per l'Ambiente Italiano, an organization...
...revive those dark days. Louise Dean's This Human Season (Scribner; 374 pages) is a novel constructed around the events leading up to the hunger strikes. "The one gift I bring to my books is my ignorance," she says, enthusiastically blowing cigarette smoke toward the ceiling of a London hotel lounge. While researching a follow-up to her award-winning first novel, Becoming Strangers (published last year), in which two main characters dealt with terminal disease, Dean was plowing through the British news of 1981 - a touchstone year of royal romance, race riots and Thatcherism in full cry - when...
Room 117 is a Pop Art pastiche of a murder scene. Room 105 has a mock surveillance camera tracking visitors to the bathroom. And Room 409 is a shrine to Swiss mountain sprite Heidi. This is Copenhagen's Hotel Fox, tel: (45) 3313 3000?comprising the work of 21 designers from four continents. They were brought together as part of a marketing exercise by Volkswagen, which asked the group to transform the former Park Hotel?a 61-room property in the center of the Danish capital?into a venue for the three-week launch of the automaker's latest runabout...
...event concluded last month, but?happily for design fans?the hotel is contractually obliged to keep the new name and look for another five years. Don't expect to see VW motifs scattered around, however. The artists were given free rein to style the hotel as they saw fit. In the case of Australian designer Rilla Alexander, that meant placing a tent in Room 121. As for Room 414, the whimsicality begins with the inscription on the door, showing a pseudo-scientific claim: 92% OF ALL HOTEL GUESTS EXPECT NO SURPRISES WHEN ENTERING THEIR ROOM. That may be true...
...Skip the hotel gym the next time you're in continental Europe: head for a jog beside the Danube instead. This khaki-colored river (Johann Strauss must have been either color-blind or in the throes of poetic license when he put "Blue" into the title of his famous waltz) is lined with hiking and jogging trails that make it one of the region's best-kept recreational secrets...