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...Deco style of the 1920s and '30s; owner Iza Smolokowska spent two years traveling the world to pick the 300 pieces of original period furniture that grace the hotel. One design highlight is the lone elevator, which mimics an Orient Express compartment, complete with Cristal mirror and leather-covered seat. The Art Deco restaurant can seat up to 50 people and offers sophisticated international cuisine. There's also a cigar divan, where guests can puff on Cuban and Costa Rican cigars. That kind of luxury comes at a price: rooms range from about $210 to $390. Contact...
...expect frills: no leather, no seat warmers, no sunroof. But the optional navigation system and keyless entry add to the high-tech appeal. And the heads turning on the sidewalk are a nice little bonus...
...full of signposts to whatever spirits are at large. You sense that right away in just about any picture by Helmut Newton, photographer of consequence, full-time provocateur, dirty old man. In the 1970s Newton became famous with fashion shots that introduced to the pages of Vogue the black leather of European decadence. (This was before Robert Mapplethorpe showed us that dog collars were as American as Rin Tin Tin.) It was a moment of witchy aftershocks from the '60s, when the energies of liberation had moved on to less wholesome destinations. Instead of pot, cocaine; instead of Joan Baez...
...place of Scottish lairds, though this entertaining Indian epic owes as much to Scarface as to Shakespeare. The Tesseract, from a novel by Alex Garland and directed by Oxide Pang (who with his brother Danny made last year's Hong Kong thriller The Eye), has a femme fatale with leather skirt, gun, motorcycle, high cheekbones-all the noir accessories. Open your bedroom door and five tough Thais stand outside, ready to make your face a map of welts. Pang never gets much momentum going here; he's happy to synopsize the genre conventions. And thriller directors never tire of "referencing...
...type who thrills to the heady smell of fresh-printed books, the soft touch of their new linen or leather bindings, or the sight of their famous or almost-famous authors, Frankfurt's annual international book fair (www.frankfurt-book-fair.com; October 8-13), is the place for you. Founded in 1949, when East Germany's Leipzig - for centuries the leading book-fair site - was no longer accessible to West German publishers, the Frankfurt exhibition is full of superlatives. In 2002, some 265,000 visitors flocked to the Messegelände to visit the world's largest literary marketplace. They inspected the wares...