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...Garouste, inspired by the symbols of alchemy: air, water, earth and fire. Throughout the museum, Starck contrasts the sumptuous and the simple. In the tableware showroom, for instance, bare concrete walls surround a 13-m-long display table full of crystalline astonishments. The only thing missing? A glass slipper. Maison Baccarat, 11 Place des Etats-Unis...
...doubled since 1995, with vine acreage up more than 50% in the past four years. Over the same period, the number of wine-drinkers worldwide has stagnated. "There are more and more of us fighting for the same-sized pie," says Charles Maurisset-Latour of the venerable Burgundian firm Maison Latour. The traditional major producers - France, Spain and Italy - have found themselves squeezed by state-of-the-art competitors from Australia, New Zealand, South America and South Africa. When French exports started to fall after a bumper year in 1998, growers wondered if they'd got something wrong. "We used...
...relationship flourished over the next year, with letters, free Goulet CDs and voice-mail critiques of my columns: "Armpit smelling? There's something wrong with you, kid." Last month I called to tell him I was coming to Vegas, and he invited me to dinner and drinks at the maison de Goulet. After passing the guard at his gated community, I had trouble locating his house, until I spotted Robert Goulet running down a circular driveway toward my car. He grabbed my shoulder, slapped me across the face and yelled...
...covering not only Pokemon but also anime, the Japanese animated films that are made for theaters, TV and home video [ARTS, Nov. 22]. As every American fan knows, Japanese animation is an eclectic art form. Anime can look like anything: kiddie fare (Pokemon), teenage fantasies (Gundam), bittersweet romance (Maison Ikkoku) and cyberpunk (Armitage). Now that the characters of Princess Mononoke and Perfect Blue have come to American theaters, the rest of the world will finally discover what it means to be an otaku, or obsessive animaniac. American fandom will never be the same. LEE ZION Fair Oaks, Calif...
Foster can handle both with equal aplomb. In 1993 he completed a cultural center for the French city of Nimes, in Provence. It is right next to the city's most famous Roman monument, the so-called Maison Carree--a Corinthian temple dedicated to Augustus' sons in the year A.D. 4. It was Thomas Jefferson's favorite classical building--in fact, Jefferson based his whole conception of Neo-Classical architecture on it--and one obviously had to approach such a historical object with caution. Would the solution be a pastiche historical arts center? Foster was sure not. "I went there...