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...easily walk through a door of memory into long-ago afternoons when I came home from school to find my father at his desk in my parents' bedroom. Sitting in front of a small atrium filled with ferns and tropical plants, he would be writing, soft green light falling around him. He wrote speeches on white note cards, letters on cream-colored stationery. He wrote letters that said more than he could say in person. It's odd to think that the man who has been called the Great Communicator was often shy with others, yet it's true...
...world: the corner of Avenue Montaigne and Rue François I. The restaurant that sprawls over most of the Hôtel Costes' lobby on Rue St.-Honoré is where you eat if you're French and you're famous, period. Yves Saint Laurent dines in the atrium twice a week. Isabelle Adjani, Catherine Deneuve and Johnny Hallyday are regulars. So are John Malkovich and Johnny Depp. The Costes know them all and feed them steamed vegetables (€20), carrot juice (€8) and roast shrimp with Thai herbs (€28). The food is always dependable, never risky...
...architect dreams of. Adjaye is getting there, one building at a time. Earlier this year the borough of Tower Hamlet in London's rough-edged East End broke ground on his largest project to date, a library so up to the minute--with its cafes and retail space, escalator atrium and digital displays across the exterior walls--that the lackluster term library has been put aside. The official name for this place is the Idea Store. Directed to create a library that would be as user friendly as a shopping mall, Adjaye provided a design of interflowing spaces that...
...conceit of the interior an "urban carpet," black diagonal stairways that hang in space like gangways. It will not just circulate crowds but also provide some of the same interior spectacle as Wright's great spiral at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Or think of the escalator atrium at any canny shopping mall. To be a museum these days is to compete in the world of theme parks and retail. That is fine with Hadid. "The idea of the urban carpet is to bring the street into the building," she says...
Whichever city you happen to be in, there's an eerie sense of d?j? vu that descends as you check into your hotel. For there, with deflating inevitability, is the all-day coffee shop and the signature restaurant, the atrium lobby and the noisy bar, all cut from the same international design template. But for everyone suffering from executive-suite ennui, an alternative is at hand: the private club...