Word: divan
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...original period furniture that grace the hotel. One design highlight is the lone elevator, which mimics an Orient Express compartment, complete with Cristal mirror and leather-covered seat. The Art Deco restaurant can seat up to 50 people and offers sophisticated international cuisine. There's also a cigar divan, where guests can puff on Cuban and Costa Rican cigars. That kind of luxury comes at a price: rooms range from about $210 to $390. Contact: +48 22 58 48 700/ reservations@hotelrialto.com.pl
...fighter and a compassionate defender. A man of logic and passion. An artist and a critic. A visionary of the future with an understanding of tradition. He fought for Palestinian rights while understanding Jewish suffering, and did not see this posture as a paradox. We founded the West-East Divan as a forum where young Israeli and Arab musicians understood that before Beethoven we all stand as equals. I shall never forget his making a room full of young Arabs, Israelis and Germans understand that the devil exists in all of us, that Weimar, where that first Divan took place...
However, Said’s interests surpassed English literature. He also worked closely with the famous Argentinian-Israeli pianist and composer Daniel Barenboim to create the West-East divan Orchestra...
...original period furniture that grace the hotel. One design highlight is the lone elevator, which mimics an Orient Express compartment, complete with Cristal mirror and leather-covered seat. The Art Deco restaurant can seat up to 50 people and offers sophisticated international cuisine. There's also a cigar divan, where guests can puff on Cuban and Costa Rican cigars. That kind of luxury comes at a price: rooms range from about $210 to $390. Contact: +48 22 58 48 700/ reservations@hotelrialto.com.pl
...divan can be a place to sit and do nothing. But the Arabic word has more active meanings. In Persia, a diwan was originally a brochure; later it came to signify a meeting place, a ministry, a court, an account book, a great hall, even a collection of poems, as in the West-Eastern Divan of the German writer Goethe. Its newest meaning is a special kind of music. The West-Eastern Divan is the name of an orchestra dreamt up after the chance meeting in a London hotel of an unlikely couple, Israeli conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim...