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...fine carpets. There are three great restaurants and a huge bar that packs in the young on weekends. But the truly chic should head for The Manor, an 18-room boutique hotel set in a secluded southern garden in Friend's Colony. The owners have combined modish veneer, glass and low lighting with traditional Indian textiles and a hint of colonial style to produce India's first designer hotel. The menu alone, featuring exotic smoothies, mango salads and even lobster, is worth a stay. For reservations, call...
...least three men wearing balaclavas and hooded sweatshirts affixed a plank to the back of the vehicle to turn it into a makeshift battering ram, then ran it in reverse up some steps and into one of the great windows of the 250-year-old house, shattering the glass and the shutters behind. Eleven paintings were hanging on the walls of the saloon inside, but the gang settled for five, including two by Rubens - Portrait of a Dominican Monk and Venus Supplicating Jupiter. Caught on video-surveillance cameras, the job was done in just 50 seconds, and the thieves made...
...Bulgari name on beautiful buildings throughout the world would be a good way to build brand awareness. It took a year to find the first location, a former nunnery backing onto the botanical gardens in the heart of Milan. The old building has been gutted and given a new glass facade; teakwood balconies off the rooms on the top floors to allow spectacular views of the gardens. The $70 million hotel will offer its 58-rooms starting at j600 a night. There will be a swimming pool with gold-mosaic tiles, a spa, a meditation garden with smoking moss...
...head for a meal with wine, prices are monstrous by Indian standards. But there can be few better evenings in the city than one that starts with a stroll through the gardens, past lily ponds and cricket games, and finishes with chicken liver p?t? on toast and a glass of Saint-Emilion; call (91-11) 465 5054 or 465 2808 for reservations...
...genesis of Finlay's book began when she was eight, touring the Chartres Cathedral near Paris with her father. She was entranced by the sunlight beaming through the stained glass, "the blue and red lights dancing on white stones." Her father remarked that artisans had lost the secret for making the blue in the 800-year-old glass, and that comment stuck with Finlay. During a stint as a journalist in Asia, working as arts editor for the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong, she broadened the spectrum of her color obsession into ocher, indigo, yellow, green and violet...