Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into plastics, was the advice given to ambitious young men after World War II. The New Yorker editor Robert A. Gottlieb and Manhattan art dealer Frank Maresca eventually did. A Certain Style: The Art of the Plastic Handbag, 1949-59 (Knopf; 117 pages; $35) is a campy offering of selected photographs of the authors' unusual collections of period pocketbooks. Articles that once seemed the height of kitschy fashion in New York City and Miami Beach now glow, isolated by smart lighting and technically perfect camera work, like the artifacts of a vanished civilization...
Restless souls forever in search of the cutting edge but never quite sure they have found it are directed to Manhattan's new Royalton Hotel, in the theater district. At least for now, the cutting edge is here. Bring Band-Aids...
Starck spent $10 million, so it is claimed, and the visitor in the torn trench coat has to admit that what Schrager and Rubell got for this bundle is momentarily, at any rate, the least boring public building in Manhattan. Some of it works; some of it doesn't; that is what is interesting. The chairs are, perhaps, too lively. Not just the ones that stab you -- also the ones made of mahogany laminate that have two normal legs on the front but only one stainless-steel leg at the rear, so that anyone who tilts backward rolls over abruptly...
...insisted that their builder hide the door. "Discreet is in," says Rubell, 46. "If you don't know where it is," observes Schrager, 42, "you wouldn't be comfortable there. Our guests will be a certain sort of people who will feel right here." The Royalton is the second Manhattan hotel bought by the pair, with two other partners. The first, Morgans, on Madison Avenue, is so discreet that no name appears outside, and cab drivers have to intuit its location. They have plans for two more, including the Barbizon, once a stately hotel for women only, which they intend...
...dinnertime, cabins carved of Lincoln Logs, and portraits etched on the Etch A Sketch. Even some new hits, like Lewis Galoob's Micro Machines, are souped-up successors to such staples as Matchbox cars. "All these toys have predictable long life," says Peter Harris, president of F.A.O. Schwarz in Manhattan, "while enhancing children's fantasies and imagination...