Word: lofted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...time alone with Mom or Dad. For Laura Bennett, 44, and Peter Shelton, 62, raising five young boys in Manhattan requires a daily battle plan. (Bennett also has a daughter, 19, from a previous marriage, who does not live with them.) A babysitter arrives early at the family's loft-style apartment to help manage the morning scrum. Then Shelton, an architect, and Bennett, a clothing designer whose career was launched on the Bravo reality show Project Runway, hit their offices, although she usually leaves hers around 3 p.m. After school, it takes one or both parents plus two sitters...
...1960s. In Cape Town's harbor sits Robben Island, site of the prison turned museum where Nelson Mandela spent most of his 27 years behind bars. The windswept island seems a lifetime removed from the vibrant multicultural city across the water. Stay at the Africa Studio www.sa-venues.com/wc/africastudio.htm) a loft-style complex close to Cape Town's liveliest restaurants and the bohemian neighborhood of Bo Kaap, or the Metropole Hotel (www.metropolehotel.co.za), which fuses Victorian architecture with one of South Africa's most modern interiors. Both hotels are close to Ginja, a modern take on a traditional French brasserie. After dinner...
...Business is OK," she says with a blush of modesty, after reluctantly admitting she earns 10 times what she did as a farmer, and now lives comfortably in an airy loft above the shop...
...upward whoosh in 2004, for example. "Yeah, and then I had that downward whoosh," Dean told me recently, laughing. "This race isn't moving because it's still way early." True enough, but what about the volatility on the Republican side--John McCain's crash, the sudden, inexplicable loft of Fred Thompson's noncandidacy...
Wedding dresses were the last thing on Aberra's mind until her future husband proposed, she made her own gown, and that casually placed ad revealed that there were other brides searching for a more stylish look. For three years she operated a custom business out of her Manhattan loft--considering it mainly a hobby until department stores like Saks Fifth Avenue and Bergdorf Goodman came calling. Her business now includes her signature line; a more romantic label, Christos, which she acquired five years ago; and the traditional Kenneth Pool, which she bought two years ago and has entrusted...