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Unlike other emerging markets?China, Russia, Dubai?India has consistently had its share of superwealthy consumers. Western luxury brands aren't new to India either. In their heyday, the maharajas were enthusiastic customers for Louis Vuitton trunks and Boucheron and Cartier jewels as well as Osler chandeliers. What has changed radically is that there is a burgeoning middle class of 300 million people?growing by 25 million each year...
This page, clockwise from far left: Bulgari yellow gold cabochon ring bulgari.com) Di Modolo Favola yellow gold and onyx ring dimodolo.com) Tiffany & Co. Frank Gehry Torque yellow gold ring (Tiffany & Co., 800-526-0649); David Yurman Albion black onyx and diamond ring davidyurman.com) Cartier Panther yellow gold and black lacquer ring cartier.com) Opposite page, clockwise from top left: Balenciaga by Nicolas Ghesquière leather hard-case wristlet (Barneys New York, 212-826-8900); Valentino satin-embellished sandals (Valentino, 800-997-0140); La D de Dior gold watch with sun-brushed dial, crocodile strap and diamond bezel dior.com
...India's economic success: of the country's hundreds of languages, the one spoken in common by the upcoming generation is English. China is just now catching on to the necessity of learning English. Just wait until China starts teaching English full bore! Are you listening, Mexico? Francis Cartier Pacific Grove, California, U.S. Your story "Bombay's boom" provided an authentic encounter with the new Bombay. It is hard to believe that so many things are happening there. But Bombay is booming only because the rest of India is booming. The city's dynamism, as you reported, owes nothing...
...pools of water, further blurring the lines between the West and elsewhere; between the observed and the observing; between Paris and the world. The new museum gives Paris its third major Nouvel project. Farther up the river is the Institut du Monde Arabe, and farther south is the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art. Spain, too, has been a Nouvel wonderland of late, with the opening last year of both his shimmering Agbar Tower in Barcelona and his new extension for the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid. By comparison, Nouvel has been a latecomer to the U.S. After a number...
...loves to play with. That window, for instance, is set in a deep recess of mirrored stainless steel. Look up and you see, reflected in the upper panel, the cars on the roadway beneath you. Look down and the lower panel reflects the sky. Up, earth; down, sky. His Cartier Foundation in Paris is a glass-walled structure with a freestanding glass wall situated a few meters in front of it. The effect is to create multiple veils of transparency in which the building seems to dematerialize. With the Musée du Quai Branly, Nouvel again shows that...