Word: baccarat
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...omotenashi hospitality. Her warmth instantly turned the cavernous banquet hall into an intimate and lively dinner party. We forgot to be self-conscious about having a stranger watch us eat, and soon we were chatting about everything from climbing Mount Fuji to collecting ceramics. We were eating from heirloom Baccarat crystal dishes in traditional Japanese shapes...
...angry spouses, loan sharks and backsliding. A young nurse who hadn't placed a bet in six months admits she relapsed four days earlier after a fight with her husband. "He wanted money in order to grant me a divorce," says the mother of two. She lost $515 playing baccarat. A well-dressed engineer says that he's considered kidnapping children for ransom in order to pay off $500,000 in gambling debts. Tan has heard these stories before. He listens patiently and delivers a PowerPoint presentation about coping with addiction. "Don't read the racing papers...
...YORK CITY The Plaza Denizens are anticipating the reopening of this landmark hotel and residence. Baccarat has been commissioned to create five crystal chandeliers to illuminate the lobby...
...creativity is not so much blurred as virtually erased. Take a look at Paris. The city of art museums is now a city of "brand museums"-foundations established to showcase the past and present output of a particular designer label. Louis Vuitton has one. So does the crystalmaker Baccarat and the silversmiths Christofle...
...believe the official statistics, these should be feel-good times in Western Europe. The economy is growing at its fastest pace since 2000, while inflation and interest rates remain low by historic standards and unemployment almost everywhere is falling. Try telling that to Marie Pereira. She sells Baccarat crystal in the fancy Bon Marché department store in Paris, and she's feeling anything but well off at the moment. "Basic things like food shopping are twice or even three times as expensive as before," she complains. "People have much less money at the moment, so they have...