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...Search further and you'll find ceremonial brasses from Benin, Hawaiian feather cloaks and-most notoriously-a group of shrunken heads from the Americas (alongside trepanned skulls, and teeth that had been ritually filed to sharp points). There are tattooing and body-piercing displays, while the more squeamish can find diversion in mountains of magic charms, jewelry and ethnic sculpture. Those seeking a break from the saccharine prettiness of Oxford's colleges-or the steep prices of its centuries-old pubs-will find it here. Especially on a rainy day, and with a healthy sense of wonder...
...other style aficionados, both local and expatriate, have hit upon their rendezvous of choice at Arch, tel: (86-21) 6466 0807. It's described as a designer's designer bar and caf?, and since opening its fashionable doors last August has lured plenty of custom with its understated elegance, sharp cocktails and program of hip events...
...tasteful interior, created by Yale-educated Taiwan architect and proprietor Leslie Chen, is an eye-pleasing mix of sharp lines and warm velvet. Chen herself is a fixture most afternoons and evenings: you'll find her perched on the same barstool and invariably tapping away at a laptop, perhaps creating a new menu, or organizing another poetry jam, cheap Belgian-beer night, free movie screening in the basement cinema or appearances by guest speakers in the fields of design, interiors, graphics and publishing...
...Search further and you'll find ceremonial brasses from Benin, Hawaiian feather cloaks and-most notoriously-a group of shrunken heads from the Americas (alongside trepanned skulls, and teeth that had been ritually filed to sharp points). There are tattooing and body-piercing displays, while the more squeamish can find diversion in mountains of magic charms, jewelry and ethnic sculpture...
...other style aficionados, both local and expatriate, have hit upon their rendezvous of choice at Arch, tel: (86-21) 6466 0807. It's described as a designer's designer bar and caf?, and since opening its fashionable doors last August has lured plenty of custom with its understated elegance, sharp cocktails and program of hip events...