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...Baya Simons The prototype will be displayed at the New York International Antiquarian Bookfair, 4 to 7 April, Park Avenue Armory, 643 Park Avenue, New York, on Lux Mentis stand, A10...
...The soaring double-height space occupies the ground floor of the equally chic Fifth Avenue Hotel, a Renaissance-style palazzo by McKim, Mead & White that has just opened to great fanfare....
...On its northern, less affluent extremes, there are imposing red-brick apartment buildings along broad avenues rattled by the charge of elevated subway trains heading towards Washington Heights and the Bronx...
...After her adventure in Italy, she went back to New York where she opened Linda Hopp in 1979, a clothing boutique at 379 West Broadway in SoHo....
...The party for the Duchess of Rutland is being thrown on a balcony of a fabulous apartment right in the middle of Worth Avenue, the island’s palm tree-lined luxury shopping street....
...Now the waterfront — which forms part of Liverpool Waters, Peel L&P’s £5bn, 30-year project to transform the city’s northern docks — is taking on a new life itself....
...Located in the busy concept space at 10 Corso Como, 3Rooms is precisely that – three spacious apartments decorated in a tastefully sludgy palette of ’70s oranges and browns....
...A couple of blocks south of Central Park, the hotel opened on August 11, occupying floors seven to 14 of the 30-storey Crown Building, a 1921 landmark at 730 Fifth Avenue....
...a free cooked meal. burberry.com; onsideyouthzones.org P is for Pink PonyRalph Lauren’s Pink Pony was set up in 2000 to ensure access to cancer treatment is available to everyone at an early stage....
...The Village Voice for nearly a decade before becoming a photography critic for The New Yorker, began gathering cuttings and tear sheets on the subject of masculinity when he moved into his first New York apartment...
...At the end of June, a Fifth Avenue apartment in Manhattan sold for $101mn, one of four since May that have breached $50mn, according to Serhant....
...south-west of London....
...Bought for a reported $2.35mn, it is a 2,200 sq ft co-op in an early 1930s property designed by Rosario Candela, the Sicilian immigrant who produced some of Fifth Avenue and Park Avenue’s most elegant apartment...
...(Its North Beach location is at 7349 Collins Avenue.) One oasis of calm is The Bass museum on 21st Street and Collins Avenue....
...apartment on West End Avenue for $2.65m — $100,000 less than its asking price....
...A special treat is dinner at home on demand from l Sodi, a Tuscan restaurant in the West Village with fare so delicious and a space so tiny that a table reservation must be booked months in advance....
...We are spoiled with good pubs in this corner of west London — but this one is something special....
...At the same time, with the price of real estate rising in the West Village, gays and lesbians moved into Chelsea, which was nearby and more affordable....
...Its burgundy walls were decorated with frescoes and trompe l’oeil that would not have looked out of place in a Renaissance palace 1,500 years later. Oddly, his study was smaller than my own....
...His main salon is in a beautiful apartment decorated with taxidermy and the team is lovely; it feels like a family, but at the same time it’s very professional.” david-mallett.com Christine Nagel, head...
...The company had some $188m of cash on hand at the end of September to weather a downturn, S&P and Moody’s data showed. Publicly traded fitness chains have also been hit....
...Immediately after the fall of communism, post-Soviet Russia — at least for those who emerged with hard currency — seemed devoted to cheap glamour and bling, aping a west that barely exists outside of the...
...Look 27, a cocktail dress, sat in the window of Bloomingdale’s, Lexington Avenue, for just a week after Black Monday – a single outfit then offered exclusively for sale for $15,000....
...The grand magasin’s renaissance comes at a perilous time in the era of ecommerce and fast fashion....
...Setting off towards the west in the direction of Torremolinos, I stopped for lunch at Chiringuito Maria, one of several beach bars standing at intervals along the Playa de la Misericordia....
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