Word: macassar
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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...