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...wine list longer than the OED is worth pennies–any unwitting diner can find it simply by opening their latest copy of Zagat’s to “Most Popular.” In this world, points are subtracted for celebrity chefs, and service and decor are only a detraction from delicious food, not a means to an end. The Holy Grail, the establishment that serves authentic”ethnic” cooking, not dumbed down for the American palate, is worth more than all others combined. It is often spoken of in hushed...
...Habibi, which means beloved in Egyptian, celebrated its second anniversary last month. The heavy blue door on Wellington Street opens into a cozy space graced with high, arched ceilings and intimate lighting. The decor is exotic: Emam bought the filigree light fixtures and colorful tapestries on trips home. Stone walls and carved wooden lattices separate plush booths lined with silk cushions. It's like stumbling upon a quiet caf? in a forgotten corner of an Egyptian bazaar, with a welcoming proprietor eager to keep his guests content...
Because screenwriter Kevin Wade has no idea stronger than the old Cinderella angle, the movie must try to get by on clothes, decor and an appeal to our democratic ideals. Of course this nice, pretty woman should get to marry her prince. Isn't that what America is all about...
...swimming pool with gold-mosaic tiles, a spa, a meditation garden with smoking moss and a restaurant run by a (yet unnamed) famous chef. The rooms will have an Asian feel, providing an ambience closer to the famous Amanresorts of Thailand and Indonesia than the pink-marble decor of Bulgari stores. Expect lots of black and gold, exotic wood and black-matte Zimbabwe marble. Each 45-sq-m room is meant to be light and airy, with floor-to-ceiling windows in the bedroom and bathroom. In the mock-up version, a gold mesh screen divides the space between...
These were the ladies who lunched in Douglas Sirk's 1950s "women's pictures" (magnificent obsession, all that heaven allows, imitation of life). Universal Studios decreed the improbable luxe of their suburban decor and the oversaturated colors of the films' palette. reviewers of the time dismissed these films (though audiences lapped them up), but over the years academics, feminist theorists and the ga-ga cinephile community have insisted on a re-evaluation. They see in Sirk's films' sympathy for his painfully repressed heroines a slyly subversive assault on the bland values that strangled them...