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...would want to argue, with so much romance in the air? Since 1883, the Orient Express has set the standard for a certain kind of luxury travel. Today, the train's original 1920s and '30s carriages are decorated with marquetry panels, finely cast solid brass and Art Deco paintings. The traditional London-to-Venice trip takes 31 hours and costs $2,400 one way. But the train's trophy trip, which mirrors its virgin journey from Paris to Istanbul, takes place only once a year?and costs $4,000 more...
...band together as some kind of conceptual abstract sound sculpture. We got together to make a pop band." Maybe, but they did gain notoriety through their own arty happenings. In the spirit of Andy Warhol's Factory, the band occupied the top floors of an abandoned Glasgow art-deco warehouse dubbed "the Chateau." They would host events, playing to a word-of-mouth crowd, while others used the space for art installations. "We were socializing with these people and they all had ideas and they all wanted to do their work in the same way as we wanted to play...
...balconies. Some observers on the preliminary tour complained that the furniture in some of the lounges looked cheap and that deck chairs for the lowest-priced cabins were white plastic instead of the traditional teak. Victoria Mather, travel editor of the British magazine the Tatler, dismissed the pervasive Art Deco look as "Las Vegas"--kitschy instead of tasteful. Note to travel snobs: those kitschy Las Vegas casinos make serious money...
...Marche is a diamond in the Cambridge rough for any accessory-hound. The owner, who has leased the store for 11 years, is a jeweler by trade, and her carefully selected collection is focused mainly on art-deco ’20s jewelry and evening bags. The store carries men’s and women’s clothes, but they tend—both price- and style-wise—toward an older audience (think tapered jeans and suits...
...subject of S.L. (Roxy) Rothafel, creator of superabundant picture palaces along Broadway, those Moorish-boorish Odeons, who was the man chosen to guide development of Radio City Music Hall. Once he was in the job, fate teamed Roxy with Deskey--Donald Deskey, the great evangel of Art Deco who had won a competition to design the Music Hall. Dedicated to all things Moderne, Deskey is the man who saved us from Rothafel's stated dream for the Music Hall: "Portuguese Rococo...