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...store, which Bonpoint executives claim is the largest luxury children's shop in the world, occupies the ground floor of a 17th century hôtel particulier and winds around a large neat garden to a newer wing. Shoppers and their parents wander through parlors with fireplaces, moldings and parquet de Versailles, and the 300-piece collection is deployed throughout. Boys' clothing is in the back, shoes are up the stairs, and there's a VIP room for celebrity clients. Children head straight for the playhouse in the center of the main parlor, and nearly everyone stops to gawk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carriage Couture | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

...meet to give speeches in praise of one another and to do whatever it is that such a large group of aged but exceedingly learned men and women do when left behind closed doors unsupervised. Glowing marble busts of members from generations past covered the walls.As the age-old parquet floor creaked sonorously under my feet, I couldn’t but think of what an unlikely set of circumstances had landed me in this most rarefied of spaces, a haunt solely dedicated to members of France’s five most elite academies—the first of which...

Author: By Alexander Bevilacqua, | Title: Gallic Interiors | 7/13/2006 | See Source »

...area for special shows is currently devoted to a collection of celadons (green-glazed pottery) from six provincial Chinese museums. It also gains improved lighting, state-of-the art display cases and other requisites of a modern museum. Yet elegant details of the 19th century mansion remain: oak parquet floors, decorative ceiling moldings and the original majestic staircase that leads to an upper-floor gallery decorated with bronze Japanese animals. Cernuschi's smoking room, too, has been recreated as a memorial to him. But months after the official June opening, some exhibits - Shang dynasty daggers and ax heads; a bronze...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Random Passions | 10/4/2005 | See Source »

...young female musicians on horseback attests to their near-equal status with men.The renovation gives the Cernuschi more exhibition space, a new seminar room, improved lighting, state-of-the art display cases and other requisites of a modern museum. Yet elegant details of the 19th century mansion remain: oak parquet floors, decorative ceiling moldings and the original majestic staircase that leads to an upper-floor gallery decorated with bronze Japanese animals. Cernuschi's smoking room, too, has been recreated as a memorial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Random Passions | 9/19/2005 | See Source »

...sake of freedom, George Bush will boogie. The President doesn't like to dance. When the duties of his office absolutely require it, he grimaces, twirls Laura a few times and then hotfoots it off the parquet. But when he landed at the Tiblisi Georgia airport Monday, the President greeted the array of performers waiting for him with a sustained wiggle. The President's first ever act of rhythmic whimsy only hints at his enthusiasm for the power of the Georgian example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush's Boogie Down Production | 5/11/2005 | See Source »

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