Word: deco
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...first boutique hotel, the Rialto, situated in a prewar neighborhood just a few hundred yards from where Wladyslaw Szpilman, the hero of The Pianist, hid out after the 1944 uprising (the area is now a busy shopping district). The Rialto is lavishly outfitted, with black-and-white Art Deco furnishings from Warsaw's heyday in the 1920s. Its elevator is modeled on an Orient Express compartment, with red leather seating. There are only 45 rooms, and no two have the same design. --By Andrew Purvis and Tadeusz Kucharsk/Warsaw
...ceiling’s really high, plus the window seat is amazing,” says Maya N. Anand ’03 of the Claverly double she shares with Vivian W. Lien ’03. Despite Clavery’s legendary art deco, Grand Hotel ambience, the girls claim their corner room is “totally overlooked” in the housing lottery. The spacious suite boasts two singles for the pair and a sizeable foyer—pronounced the French way, of course. But the jewel of the suite is definitely its huge, semicircular common room...
...canny customization of stores. At the H-E-B in Houston's Alief section, live tilapia and catfish swim in a tank in the seafood department, and fresh lemongrass and rambutan are stacked in the produce aisle--all favorites of Alief's large Asian community. In San Antonio's Deco-District there are fresh-baked pan dulce and nopalitos, an edible part of a cactus plant, for the area's many Hispanic shoppers. And in Houston's Westchase H-E-B, Indian shoppers can pick up aromatic ajwain and black mustard seeds...
...quickly as rent for a Shanghai apartment. In the end, we finally settled on a unit in a 1930s apartment building built during Shanghai's last great boom. Once, the Grosvenor House was one of the most prestigious buildings in town, known for its sweeping garden and Art Deco touches. Today it's been eclipsed by the behemoth modern villas that dot the city. But for us, it's home?until it, too, becomes too rich...
...also Plymouths, Dodges and DeSotos, mounting a challenge to automotive giants Ford and General Motors. Chrysler, wrote TIME, "had become one of the chief U.S. industrialists." But he was not through building. In this same year he announced plans for the 77-story Chrysler Building, whose graceful Art Deco structure remains one of the signature profiles of the Manhattan skyline...