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...waterborne tourist haunt is locally infamous for its mediocre food and moribund air. But all that has changed with the opening of Top Deck, tel: (852) 2552 3331, a snazzy international restaurant on the Jumbo's uppermost level. Operated by the same team behind the almost-as-iconic Caf? Deco restaurant atop Victoria Peak, the new venue provides the best excuse in years for a trip to the Jumbo's anchorage in Aberdeen Harbour. Amid a breezy alfresco setting (choose from tables, sofas and even day beds), visitors can dine on cosmopolitan bistro fare?think steaks, sushi, tandoori dishes...
...tourist haunt is locally infamous for its mediocre food and moribund air. But all that has changed with the opening of Top Deck, tel: (852) 2552 3331, a snazzy international restaurant on the Jumbo's uppermost level. Operated by the same team behind the almost-as-iconic Café Deco restaurant atop Victoria Peak, the new venue provides the best excuse in years for a trip to the Jumbo's anchorage in Aberdeen Harbour. Amid a breezy alfresco setting (choose from tables, sofas and even day beds), visitors can dine on cosmopolitan bistro fare - think steaks, sushi, tandoori dishes...
...antique but resilient notion of Manhattan's glamorous otherness-of a WASP elite as tall, thin and gleaming as Deco skyscrapers, of an oasis of chic, an object of pride and envy for the white ethnics living in Brooklyn and the Bronx and Paramus and points west-has a lot to do with a 10-block patch of midtown real estate called Broadway. That's where the swells dressed up for the opening night of a Gershwin show starring Fred and Adele Astaire. The Woolworth Building, four miles down the street, was the Cathedral of Commerce; the village of legitimate...
Remele, who took design classes at Parsons School of Design in Manhattan and concentrates in the History of Art and Architecture, is full of intellectual and artistic allusions about his collection. Art Deco, Russian Constructivism, even the design of the Chrysler hood ornament, all come into play. He has fanciful names for colors: cream, thistle, champagne, dove...
Unlike Ware’s last book “Quimby the Mouse,” this edition is fully colored, complete with paper cut-out instructions for building a bookcase for the Novelty Library, a flipbook, and even two glow-in-the-dark pages with Art Deco-style zodiac constellations...