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...hotel design is any reflection of the state of the economy, then hard times have indeed befallen us. How else does one explain the artfully peeling paintwork, beautifully bare floorboards and fabrics faded just so at Rough Luxe, www.roughluxe.co.uk - one of London's hottest boutique hotels? All right, it's designer decay, but it's nonetheless a jolt to travelers used to the glossy neutral tones and high-tech wizardry of more conventional offerings...
...With a lobby ceiling stripped bare to expose 78-year-old paintwork and with dentist chairs surreally placed beneath vintage fans, Singapore's New Majestic Hotel (newmajestichotel.com) makes a striking first impression. Then again, 34-year-old owner Loh Lik Peng didn't make his name by pandering to conventional notions of innkeeping. The lawyer-turned-hotelier's first property, Hotel 1929, saw a colonial-era terrace on the fringes of Chinatown transformed into a modish haven of 32 small but eccentrically styled rooms. The latest venture, a couple of streets away, is a grander vehicle for his bohemianism. There...
With a lobby ceiling stripped bare to expose 78-year-old paintwork and with dentist chairs surreally placed beneath vintage fans, Singapore's New Majestic Hotel newmajestichotel.com makes a striking first impression. Then again, 34-year-old owner Loh Lik Peng didn't make his name by pandering to conventional notions of [an error occurred while processing this directive] innkeeping. The lawyer-turned-hotelier's first property, Hotel 1929, saw a colonial-era terrace on the fringes of Chinatown transformed into a modish haven of 32 small but eccentrically styled rooms...
...fire quickly spread through the Sheffield's electrical wiring and its paintwork. The explosion also knocked out the ship's lighting and destroyed the principal water main used for onboard fire fighting. Said Salt: "We couldn't get below decks near the seat of the damage. We knew there were men down there, but we didn't know how many." After hours of unsuccessful fire fighting, Salt made the agonizing decision to abandon ship. Later he returned to his command by helicopter to view the damage. The Sheffield had refused to sink, but it remained...
...embellish the standard wardrobe with a United Auto Workers baseball cap. Plant officials promptly made him remove it and issued a flat ban on noncompany hats on the ground that allowing them would impair "the Honda working environment." Union buttons were forbidden too because they might damage production-line paintwork...