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...Touring these swank digs, it's hard to remember that this is the same city where 15 years ago the richest folks found delight simply in a new icebox. The pace of change in Shanghai (double-digit growth rates for the past decade) is so rapid that my real estate agent had upgraded her Nokia cell phone between our first and second meetings?the third mobile she'd got in as many months. Sure, most people aren't living in the ch?teaus of Shanghai, but incomes have increased so fast that 60% of the city's households now own their...
KITCHEN NET Next time you have an epicurious.com emergency, CMi Worldwide hopes you'll reach for its iCEBOX, a 9-in. TV with Web access, e-mail, an audio and video CD drive (but no DVD player) and spillproof wireless keyboard. The $500 unit, due out in March, only works with the company's own $20-per-month Internet service--a drawback for those already online with another service. Designed specifically for the kitchen--a bracket, sold separately, makes it a space saver--the iCEBOX can do something few other info appliances can: connect to closed-circuit cameras for monitoring...
...finally, an entrepreneur unlike any other: Jim Moran, 89, who, until he retired in 1985, reigned as supreme master of that most singular marketing device--the stunt. Highlights: he sold an icebox to an Eskimo on behalf of the American Ice Manufacturers Association. He personally hatched an ostrich egg by sitting on it for 19 days, 4 hrs. and 32 min., on behalf of the 1947 movie The Egg and I. For producer David Merrick, whose Broadway show The Matchmaker needed a little extra coverage, he dressed an orangutan in a chauffeur's suit and set the creature...
...live in New York City's once infamous Hell's Kitchen, just north and west of Times Square, but their tiny one-bedroom apartment is more like a jewel box than a jail. Antique furniture and Persian rugs are complemented by original art on the walls. A vintage yellow icebox opens to reveal liqueurs, whiskeys and port glasses. On top sits the couple's decanter collection. This one is Danish, 1890s; these two are French, 1920s. Duke Ellington's jazz floats from the bedroom, and Sam's latest purchase, a gold jacquard smoking jacket, hangs behind the door. Caitlin...
...ZERO CUSTOMIZED REFRIGERATORS The company that made industrial steel fridges a thing of beauty and status has deconstructed the icebox. Sub-Zero has developed technology that will allow kitchen mavens to refrigerate the most unlikely spaces: an overhead cabinet, a closet, a row of drawers. The box has vanished. This is the stuff that Martha Stewart's dreams are made...