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Claim to fame: Anyone who has doubts about luxury fashion selling online has yet to meet Massenet, the founder of Net-a-Porter.com Based in London, the high-end shopping website gets about 5.5 million page views a month...
...bathroom, our rituals are simple, primal and--most of all--solitary. So it should come as no surprise that in the room in which people spend the most Me time, they're also spending a lot more money. From high-end tiling to the deepest baths; to soaps, candles and lighting; to towels whose softness would make kittens weep with envy--people are setting up in-home oases behind the bathroom door...
Whatever the health of the economy, it seems unlikely that outside certain financial companies and law firms, the office dress code will ever snap back to the formality it had before the 1990s. Even so, high-end retailers are hopeful that a certain population of men will continue to shop like women. --By Michele Orecklin
Even if you didn't know how often high-end restaurant design is all about the search for glamorous novelties, you would figure it out as soon as you set foot in Megu, a new Japanese place in lower Manhattan where the "edomae nigiri sushi" goes for as much as $90 a person and where, in the center of the main dining room, you will find a 5-ft.-high ice sculpture of the Buddha that, no surprise, is replaced every day. Ice? Well, if you forget every banquet-hall buffet centerpiece you've ever seen, it's possible...
...condo building overlooking the Hudson River, he started a trend. Now deep-pocketed Manhattanites who missed out on Meier's foray will have another shot at the comforts of home--walls of undulating glass, private bowling alleys, state-of-the-art everything. In addition to another Meier tower, three high-end condo projects are in the works. For his first apartment building, architect Charles Gwathmey is transforming a former parking lot in Greenwich Village into a 21-story tower, Astor Place (above). The building's multifaceted exterior is chiseled like a precious stone--befitting the multimillion-dollar lofts inside. Further...