Word: maccioni
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Along the building's side, nestled amid real and artificial rocks and perfectly genuine umbrella pines, are a series of pavilions containing restaurants franchised from celebrated ones in New York, Boston and San Francisco, including two clones of Sirio Maccioni's operations, Le Cirque 2000 and Osteria del Circo. You drive up the side of the Lago di Comovegas and arrive at a gigantic porte cochere, patinated copper and glass, inspired by the vaults of Milan's Galleria. Beyond that stretches the foyer, acres of marble and mosaic floor. And the ceiling chandelier, the largest glass sculpture ever made...
...their skills and genius added to the lives of those who've been lucky and sensible enough to dine at their restaurants." Included in the list are the creme de la creme of upscale eating: Andre Soltner of Lutece, Paul Kovi and Tom Margittai of the Four Seasons, Sirio Maccioni of Le Cirque. Forbes also remembered the leather-clad practitioners of another favorite pastime: he left $10,000 to the American Motorcyclist Association and $1,000 each to 26 cycle clubs...
...bill, and seldom practice power lunching and power tripping. On a recent Wednesday, Manhattan's superswank Le Cirque played host to Richard Nixon, Publisher Malcolm Forbes and Chris-Craft Chief Herbert Siegel all at the same time. "They all looked at each other," recalls Italian Owner Sirio Maccioni. "Maybe they were thinking, 'Do I have the right table?' I could put Mr. (Giovanni) Agnelli (whose family controls Fiat) anywhere. Europeans might complain about the food, but not the table." Some sybaritic loungers, of course, treat the U.S. as just another dish on the international smorgasbord. Young, titled transients from Europe...
...such affairs of estate as the re-release of vintage Beatle works and the distribution of royalties. But the session, arranged by a mutual friend from Paris, seems to have evoked at least a bit of the good old days of harmony and song. As Le Cirque Owner Sirio Maccioni put it afterward: "The lunch was personal, not business...
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