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...vibrant color (the bedroom juxtaposes canary yellow with magenta). The penthouse walls are decorated with gesso oak branches mounted on mirror to evoke the tangled briars that grew up around Sleeping Beauty's castle. There are lamp fittings shaped like birdcages, twig-like door handles on which perch golden birds, a tented ceiling, painted silk walls and an abundance of cherubs and shells, as well as a number of watercolors by Messel, two of them designs for The Sleeping Beauty. It's all utterly romantic and theatrical, if a little over the top - Noël Coward commented...
...Vietnam, conservation is itself a young idea. After decades of war and isolation, the country opened its jungles up to foreign environmentalists in the 1990s, and it soon became known as a hotspot for unique species on the brink of extinction. One of the rarest is the golden-headed langur. Found on Cat Ba Island in northern Vietnam, this cliff-dwelling monkey has a population of less than...
...fashioned from concrete and laminated beechwood. Afterward, they have a healthy choice of postprandial entertainment on the doorstep, much of it with an ethnic feel. At the Indian-inspired KAIKO CLUB, tel: (43-1) 479 88 49, revelers dance to house music beside Buddhist statuary and beneath a massive golden chandelier; over at BOW 4, tel: (43-1) 310 55 82, the techno is as loud as the Moroccan-themed surroundings. When your ears start ringing, go for a nightcap at the blissfully laid-back SHIRAZ, tel: (43-664) 335 55 55 - a favorite of hookah-smoking jeunesse...
...book’s highlights include the successful crackdowns and trials which ended piracy’s “golden age” in the early 18th century, the story of successful pirate-gone-legit Captain Sir Henry Morgan, and (of course) the chapter “Torture, Violence, and Marooning...
...Vassort, dressed comfortably in jeans and blue cotton shirt, stands on the terrace of his whitewashed house, taking in the view of long golden beaches and a broad estuary snaking eastward into a hot, rocky valley. Retired since selling his restaurant near Avignon, France in 2002, Vassort, 74, now lives year-round in this sun-washed setting where he once took his other stories...