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...Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks its quarter century Summits of Style Esoteric treatments in a minimalist setting A Starflyer Is Born In-flight comfort with an internet connection in every seat Take a Hike Destinations to restore your sense of wonder The 1940s, floral-inspired fabrics of Josef Frank are as much a home-design icon as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Chair or an Arne Jacobsen dining table - but they don't come cheap. So here's a tip for those who want to enjoy some of the Austrian architect and designer...
...recent show at the Cooper-Hewitt museum in New York City, Orth exhibited a fabric with a hue that alternates from a nearly monochrome gray to a tricolor gray-red-and-green jacquard. The colors appear when electrodes woven into the cloth generate heat, which in turn causes temperature-sensitive dyes in the cloth to change hue. "Making this fabric is like making an interactive painting," says Orth, who has come full circle since her undergraduate days spent painting on canvas...
...1940s, floral-inspired fabrics of Josef Frank are as much a home-design icon as Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Chair, or an Arne Jacobsen dining table-but they don't come cheap. So here's a tip for those who want to enjoy some of the Austrian architect and designer's beautiful patterns without paying top dollar: head for the remnants chest at Stockholm's Svenkst Tenn (www.svenskttenn.se), the grand dame of Swedish home-furnishings stores. Frank was a co-founder of the store and concocted 160 patterns for it, of which 40 are still in production...
Nearly four hours after the bomb blast, Neeraj Chawla still walks around with a large blotch of blood on his blue shirt. Chawla was one of the shop-owners in Paharganj-a congested zone of cheap backpacker hotels and clothing and fabric stores, just off New Delhi's main railway station. A bomb went off this evening in a busy intersection in Paharganj, killing at 16 people and injuring 60. (An explosion in the Sarojini district may have killed 39; another bomb went off in a bus in south Delhi; while police defused another in Chandi Chowk.) Chawla's handicrafts...
...Tines and Shemtov, who have masterminded the suite’s decoration. Pham and Shemtov share the one double, which they styled for “the feel of an old men’s club,” Shemtov says. The walls are covered in an ornate, patterned fabric, and a dark wood armoire feels very Renaissance. Embellishing the room are various tchotchkes from Shemtov’s collection, like a 17th century portable lap desk, a model foot from a shoemaker, and Chinese porcelain urns. Not all the bedrooms are as baroque. “While Baruch?...