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...meantime, an appealing new boutique hotel has opened close to the Spanish Steps. Aleph (Via di San Basilio) is conveniently located near the city's chic shops. Among them: Merola, Europe's oldest glove store (Via del Corso 143), where gloves are made as they were a century ago, entirely by hand. Elsewhere, some of Rome's best shopping is found in its sleek design stores. Ilaria Miani caters to an élite clientele (Via Monserrato 35), with everything from sugar bowls to bookcases. Spazio Sette (Via dei Barbieri 7) is three floors of cutting-edge design from...
...anyone who has sat in the famous "Tatami Room 1" of Hong Kong's Aqua restaurant can attest, there's nothing like a stunning view for turning a great meal into a grand one. The room, pictured, is one of several private suites at the über-chic Italian-Japanese restaurant, tel: (852) 3427 2288, that capitalize on its magnificent perch atop One Peking Road - a showy new fashion-cum-dining complex with panoramic views of the Hong Kong skyline. With its dramatic corner location, Tatami Room 1 may be the most spectacular of all, so book well ahead. Been...
...architectural career of Bill Bensley. The landscape designer behind the much-admired gardens and terraces at the Four Seasons Chiang Mai, Bensley proves that his talents extend to bricks and mortar here, with a massive glass dome that awes on arrival, as well as 107 guestrooms that exude understated chic and come equipped with luxurious rain showers (perfect for washing off any dust accumulated during your rambles through Angkor Wat). Evenings should be spent dining on the fabulously spicy cuisine at the hotel's restaurant, Meric, aptly named for a locally grown pepper. Don't miss Australian chef Paul Hutt...
...imaginative, passionate, dynamic and "human." The three most promising bouquets were consumer tested in China, Brazil, Russia, Thailand, Germany and the U.S.--and then tweaked some more. The result, a fresh, fruity aroma, won't be dabbed behind the ears of fashionistas or sold on the shelves of chic department stores. But if you visit the Samsung Experience store in New York City--or, soon, if you open up a Samsung Electronics package or pamphlet--you may catch a whiff. The new eau de electronics, named Intimate Blue to evoke Samsung's cobalt blue logo, is part of a drive...
Only a company whose customers line up along Tokyo blocks clamoring for cheap casual chic would be comfortable predicting being "bigger than Gap." But Tadashi Yanai, CEO of parent company Fast Retailing, expects Uniqlo to reach $10 billion in sales by 2010, with 10% coming from the U.S. The haberdasher's son is introducing neighborhood concept stores--stocked with basics made with colorful Egyptian cotton and Mongolian cashmere--to three high-volume New Jersey malls, to add to Uniqlo's roughly 700 stores in Asia and Britain. Yanai talks big, but expansion failures in the London area...