Word: orientale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The Madison Avenue store, on which Lauren has lavished more than $14 million, is his ultimate showcase and testing laboratory. In many ways the store rewrites the textbook for upscale retailing. Built in 1895 as the home of a wealthy heiress, the five-story limestone structure had been divided into...
New Age is still too young and stylistically inchoate for any assessment of its ultimate worth. But its appeal is wide. "I wouldn't be surprised if some farmer in Iowa listens to George Winston while plowing his fields," says Keith Eckerling, a record-store-chain vice president in Chicago...
Yuppies alone do not account for this vogue. Also nibbling on the botanical wild side are serious connoisseurs and health buffs, who for once agree about food. Introduced to these products either by travel or by the immigrants who first imported them, inventive chefs have placed these ingredients on their...
British and other merchants visited the Netherlands, admired what they saw and took home not only a taste for brick row houses with double-hung windows but such Dutch discoveries as Chinese tea and Oriental carpets. In Georgian England of the following century, the practical was combined with the beautiful...
Amid all the uproar over Harvard's links to exclusive all-male final clubs last year, one elite Harvard institution stood quietly by, unaffected by the campus hoopla. Everyday around noon its male and female members, like their male cousins in adjoining stately homes, took out their keys and entered...