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...Within a few years the Chinese couple had built a portfolio of detached homes in Toronto while Mr Zhang had racked up huge losses on the baccarat tables at the Casino Rama resort, an hour outside the city...
...Last year, it opened a luxury hotel under its new Baccarat brand in Midtown Manhattan, across from the Museum of Modern Art....
...Indeed, pending the opening of the Baccarat, scheduled to open four blocks south in December, I know nowhere in Manhattan I’d rather stay....
...As in the VIP baccarat room at a Macau casino, if you cannot afford to lose millions by gambling, you should not be playing alongside the high-rollers who can....
...Although gambling is illegal in China – except at the baccarat tables of Macau and Hong Kong’s twin horse tracks – there is one venue on the mainland where some say games of chance are officially sanctioned...
...“The perfumes came in exquisite bottles designed by the likes of Lalique and Baccarat,” says James Craven, perfume archivist at specialist perfumery Les Senteurs in London....
...Recent strong baccarat revenues suggest that Asian consumers are doing their bit, but two companies illustrate the problems lingering after a fit of expansion and investment....
...So impressed were the glass experts at Maison Baccarat in Paris that the house commissioned Legge & Braine to create a collection....
...president of Prime Outlets, which own a portfolio of 21 outlet centres across the US and Puerto Rico, stocking brand names such as Neiman Marcus Last Call, Armani, La Perla, Barneys New York, and even Baccarat...
...You can follow up with drinks at B bar, Baccarat’s new nightspot – cocktails in crystal glasses at Y2,500-Y3,000 – then work off your hangover with a yoga session amid the handbags at Furla....
...It involved designing a box with the help of Baccarat with a handle, moulded by me, of a dove sitting on an open hand....
...These remain favourite categories for connoisseurs and casual collectors but, according to Edward Munves, of New York-based James Robinson Inc dealers, purchasers are increasingly interested in later items...
...They are drawn by names such as Tiffany & Company, Hermès, Chanel, Saks Fifth Avenue, Baccarat, Neiman Marcus and Louis Vuitton....
...At SJM’s flagship Grand Lisboa casino, craps now competes for attention with Chinese dice games sic-bo and fish-prawn-crab and Macao’s perennial top draw, baccarat....
...Baccarat – 007′s favourite card game – is the territory’s most popular diversion....
...According to statistics compiled by Macao’s Gaming Inspection and Coordination Bureau, gross revenues from VIP baccarat – the game of choice in Mr Ho’s VIP halls – declined slightly last year after years...
...However, it is thought that Starwood Capital might keep the controlling stake in the Baccarat crystal business owned by Société du Louvre....
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