Word: orients
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...Rialto's 44 rooms are done up in the Art Deco style of the 1920s and 1930s; owner Iza Smolokowska spent two years traveling the world to pick the 300 pieces of original period furniture that grace the hotel. One design highlight is the lone elevator, which mimics an Orient Express compartment, complete with Cristal mirror and leather-covered seat. The Art Deco restaurant can seat up to 50 people and offers sophisticated international cuisine. There's also a cigar divan, where guests can puff on Cuban and Costa Rican cigars. That kind of luxury comes at a price: rooms...
...Rialto's 44 rooms are done up in the Art Deco style of the 1920s and '30s; owner Iza Smolokowska spent two years traveling the world to pick the 300 pieces of original period furniture that grace the hotel. One design highlight is the lone elevator, which mimics an Orient Express compartment, complete with Cristal mirror and leather-covered seat. The Art Deco restaurant can seat up to 50 people and offers sophisticated international cuisine. There's also a cigar divan, where guests can puff on Cuban and Costa Rican cigars. That kind of luxury comes at a price: rooms...
...yards from where Wladyslaw Szpilman, the hero of The Pianist, hid out after the 1944 uprising (the area is now a busy shopping district). The Rialto is lavishly outfitted, with black-and-white Art Deco furnishings from Warsaw's heyday in the 1920s. Its elevator is modeled on an Orient Express compartment, with red leather seating. There are only 45 rooms, and no two have the same design. --By Andrew Purvis and Tadeusz Kucharsk/Warsaw
...Orient Express: Across Russia with Kim Jong Il (2002) By: Konstantin Pulikovsky, a Russian-government official who rode with Kim on a 2001 rail journey to Moscow (Kim is afraid of flying) Dirt: Pulikovsky said Kim's luxurious private train was stocked with fresh lobsters, roast donkey and comely female conductors
...North Fork wineries are mostly located along two parallel roads: Route 25 (Main Road) and Route 48 (Sound Avenue), which run from Aquebogue to Orient. (See box on following page for directions from New York City and New England.) You've hit the right spot when you see WELCOME TO LONG ISLAND WINE COUNTRY signs along Route 25 in Aquebogue...