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CAPE TOWN Jet setters travel light with Louis Vuitton's Monogram Macassar...
...idea, as Ford has imagined it, of walking into a store as though you're walking into a home. Real luxury, as he sees it, is service, not status. And Ford's store has been lovingly crafted as if it were a private residence with fireplaces, a macassar ebony staircase, a bar, butlers and even works of art from the designer's personal collection. Downstairs are a fragrance den, a room filled with floor-to-ceiling shelves of shirts (there are 340 color choices) and a salon that Ford says is an exact copy of the living room...
...years. An impatient James Monroe opened it with a rousing reception on New Year's Day 1818. The place was packed. Writes historian William Seale: "The heavy odors of wet plaster and paint must have rivaled society's usual smells of rouge and plaster and pearl powder, camphor and macassar hair oil." The powerful newspaper the National Intelligencer was uplifted: "It was gratifying to be able once more to salute the President of the United States with the compliments of the season in his appropriate residence...
...first British pioneers to set foot in Zululand met with a truly stunning cordiality. Executions were held in their honor. Shaka signed peace pacts with his guests, ceded them his kingdom (he had no intention of delivering), asked little more in return than a supply of Rowland's Macassar Oil. A bottle of this popular British hairdressing had arrived in some visitor's medicine chest; since it seemed to restore hair color, the aging Shaka decided that it possessed rejuvenatory powers...
While Stone has manipulated the cramped spaces as best he can, he is more in his element with the interior decoration. Macassar ebony, solid bronze doors, parqueted floors, anodized aluminum sequins, red pile carpets, even potted palms abound (see color page). Two of the museum's nine floors are surrendered to an espresso and cocktail lounge and a 52-seat restaurant called the Gauguin Room. And since Hartford contends that a museum is "really like a church," there is a 3,500-pipe Aeolian-Skinner organ...