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...sunny afternoon in San Francisco's bustling Powell Street shopping district, swarms of spendthrifts bypass the Body Shop, which is empty except for the employees, to browse around Lush, a rival British skin-care boutique located a block away. With cakes of multihued soap piled high in the window, this whimsical cosmetics grocer packages its fresh, handmade lotions in what appear to be pints of ice cream--complete with sell-by dates--and arranges fistfuls of bath salts in produce-like pyramids of color. An overzealous employee is roaming the store, commanding shoppers to sniff the new Honey, I Washed...
...same could be said about Americans' often all-too-brief enchantment with new stores, which explains why Lush founder Mark Constantine is in no rush to expand the brand in the U.S. His eight-year-old company, which installed its first U.S. store in December on Powell Street and opened a second last month in Boston, already has 210 shops in 29 countries. "Someone who's as international as us would certainly have a store in New York before they had one in Croatia," says the cheeky CEO, who gave rise to a skin conditioner called Buffy the Backside Slayer...
...Berlin: Golf-und-LandClub Berlin-Wannsee Nestled amid lush forests and lakes, the club allows nonmembers on weekdays only (on weekends you must be accompanied by a member...
...year ago TIME.comix did a roundup of interesting anthology books and this season has produced another crop. This time we focus on the products of a burgeoning trend in comix: small, boutique publishers who have found the gospel of production values. Presses like Avodah and AdHouse are now giving lush, full-color, square-bound, heavy-paper-stock treatment to those artists who only recently knew only photocopy carbon and staples. Leapfrogging comix into the realm of fine arts, this new attention to the aesthetics of the book as art object means to both "legitimize" formerly obscure artists and appeal...
...Nive River valley has lush, steeply sloping hills in which small villages are nestled, the houses painted in the traditional Basque way: white with red shutters. The Nive, and other rivers in the area like the Gaves, can be 75 ft. across in places, though tributaries are much smaller and easily fordable in waders. The best fishing is often at nightfall, when the trout feed on immature insects. A guide can be booked for $90 a day through the concierge at the Hotel du Palais...