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...pots and pans." The book recounts his descent into the culinary hell of a busy professional kitchen: a dirty, angry, vulgar, drunken, pressurized little world that's oddly invisible to outsiders. "There sat the customers in all their splendor," he observes, "spotless tablecloths, bowls of flowers, mirrors and gilt cornices and painted cherubim; and here, just a few feet away, we in our disgusting filth...
...when she went through the looking glass? The elevator that transports guests down to Bel Canto provides a surreal start to an evening in London's first lyrical dining room - the elevator carriage resembles a shrunken La Fenice, Venice's gorgeous opera house. Downstairs in the plush velvet-and-gilt dining room, which convincingly resembles an opera box, dimensions are restored to conventional expectations. The service, however, goes beyond them. Not only are the waiting staff attentive and swift, but all of them boast voices so utterly pure and transforming that it's hard to remember...
...recession deepens, luxury sales are moving into the discount arena, especially online. Since 2007, no fewer than five high-end e-tailers, including gilt groupe and ideeli, have opened shop as members-only discount sites that offer VIP-style sample sales at outlet prices. But the fashion site making the most waves these days is a new online outlet cleverly named theOutnet.com. Opened to the public on April 16, theOutnet - the latest hot spot created by net-a-porter.com founder Natalie Massenet - had 150,000 visitors register prior to the official launch. "With our fashion-forward approach, edited selection and chic format...
...polished wood panel and the carefully hidden brushstrokes give the Bellini its placidly silken, liquid surface, and even its painted and columned frame recalls the Italian High Renaissance; but the rougher surface of the canvas seems to free Titian to make visible his brushwork and lend his gilt-framed work a subdued and textured frisson. Titian dominates this first room of the exhibition, and his remarkable portrait of Pope Paul III introduces the psychological depths that set off these Venetians from their southern predecessors. The pope sits in a sea of faded velvet—his mantle and his chair?...
...sample-sale alchemy is that the merchandise is of a high order. Whereas other discount sites source from third parties, Wilson and Maybank and their company, Gilt Groupe, based in New York City, work directly with each design house. "We are actually helping a lot of designers, especially in these challenging times, because we are able to sell so much volume that our sales are meaningful to designers." So meaningful that a recent Hervé Léger sale sold out in 45 minutes. Indeed, since the November 2007 launch, membership has grown to more than half a million, with several thousand...