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...Hautel Couture's boutique flagship, Dream, has followed its first property in midtown Manhattan with a sleek, glass-wrapped edifice in Bangkok www.dreambkk.com. Its resident manager, Adi Jaya, is a dapper Balinese who trained at the sumptuous Asian chain Amanresorts, so you can expect your total experience - accommodation, service, dining - to be sublime. Inside the guest rooms, the accent is purely contemporary: white walls and leather chaises, cerulean lighting, Egyptian cotton linen tucked into platform beds, iPod nanos and 42-inch plasma TVs, while the two suites boast deep-soak baths and bars stocked with Veuve Clicquot and 42 Below...
Wine snobs the world over like to show off their expertise by sniffing at a glass and identifying the notes of black currant, citrus and other fruits they detect. For those who find that intimidating, help is at hand from a country not usually associated with wine: Estonia. Stick your nose in a glass of Estonian red, and if it smells like black currant, then it probably is. The tiny Baltic republic is located too far [an error occurred while processing this directive] north to grow grapes, but it has a flourishing tradition of making wine from the berries that...
That glimmering water wall is more than a spectacular variation on wallpaper. It's an ingenious visual trick, an instantaneous conversion of nature to art by the mere act of framing the scene. Europe in the 18th century saw a vogue among painters and travelers for the Claude glass, an optical device that framed views in the manner of landscape painter Claude Lorrain and lent them something like his subdued tones. The Mediatheque functions in a similar way, but with even simpler means, aestheticizing a bit of nature simply by pointing us toward it just so. In a room where...
Hautel Couture's boutique flagship, Dream, has followed its first property in midtown Manhattan with a sleek, glass-wrapped edifice in Bangkok (www.dreambkk.com). Its resident manager, Adi Jaya, is a dapper Balinese who trained at the sumptuous Asian chain Amanresorts, so you can expect your total experience?accommodation, service, dining?to be sublime. Inside the guest rooms, the accent is purely contemporary: white walls and leather chaises, cerulean lighting, Egyptian cotton linen tucked into platform beds, iPod nanos and 42-inch plasma TVs, while the two suites boast deep-soak baths and bars stocked with Veuve Clicquot and 42 Below...
...afternoon, the Crimson claimed victory partly due to its strongest rebounding game this season. The Mountain Hawks entered the game out-rebounding the competition by 5.3 boards a game, the second best margin in the Patriot League. Thus, Harvard’s 37-33 besting of Lehigh on the glass looked all the more impressive. When you break down this statistic into offensive and defensive rebounds, the Crimson improved on its season average at both ends of the floor. While Lehigh out-rebounded Harvard 18-15 on offense, Harvard still dramatically improved on its average of 10.25 offensive rebounds...