Word: chrome
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Maxim's the yacht. Now there is Maxim's the luxury hotel, or, more properly, La Residence Maxim's. This latest addition to the Pierre Cardin collection boasts 39 suites, ranging in price from $1,000 to $5,000 a night and in style from belle epoque antiques to chrome-and-plastic modern. Cardin bought the mansion that was to become La Residence 18 months ago; it will open in early July...
...just introduced the fanciest, priciest cart ever to cruise past a clubhouse. Called the Sun Classic, this "golf car," as Yamaha refers to it, sells for $4,230 and comes with tinted windshield, headlights with high beams, self-canceling turn signals, brake and tail lights, adjustable seats and chrome wheels with < whitewall tires. Such options as plush carpeting and AM-FM radio can add $280 more to the sticker price...
...utopian, Mies pursued rather luxurious ideas about appropriate modern style. It was his insistence on exquisite materials and craft that made his best work sublime rather than plain or mean. The pavilion in Barcelona was the apotheosis of posh Miesian austerity: slender chrome-plated columns, travertine floors, slabs of Algerian onyx (which alone accounted for 20% of the construction cost), green Tinian marble, etched glass, a grand red curtain. The big leather-and-steel Barcelona chair remains a popular modern icon. The pavilion was small and stood for only eight months, which makes its feat--converting the world...
...doing a New York '60s theme as opposed to a West Coast one," Jope explains. "It's a little bit harder-edged and more plastic. It's vinyl and chrome versus communes and granola. That girl just looks as if she was meant to be in the go-go booth...
...California, J-Paul Dumont knocked down the walls between his grown children's bedrooms in his Palo Alto home to set up a deluxe sweatshop complete with mirrored walls, sophisticated weight-lifting devices and a chrome rack that contains rows of dumb-bells. A whirlpool tub is in the bath next door. The $100,000 price tag also bought style: the entire suite is done in art deco. Working out, says Dumont, 55, an investment banker, "is a lot better at home...