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...Ochre This new SoHo store has chandeliers and drawer pulls fashioned from buffalo horns, in black, brown and pale. The pulls are made with hardware of brushed nickel or bronze. tel: (1-212) 414-4332; www.ochre.net...
...Vera A menagerie of glass beetles, flame-worked by Venetian artisan Vittorio Constantini, is at De Vera, a SoHo design boutique. tel: (1-212) 625-0838; www.deveraobjects.com...
...1840s in which a cohesive theory from one discipline is used to inform ideas from another. Snow's work on administering ether as an anesthetic convinced him cholera was ingested, not inhaled. As a physician he understood how disease spread through a body. As a resident of Soho, he had the local knowledge to realize that the contagion radiated from a single source. "When you look at cholera at any one of those levels, it's hard to see how it works," says Johnson. "But here was somebody thinking at the level of microbes, the human body and the city...
...toshers (copper salvagers), mudlarks and bone-pickers who crammed the city's margins, scavenging its corpses or sifting through its effluvia on the banks of the Thames. The air in parts of the capital was so appalling that when, in 1854, cholera struck on Broad Street in the Soho district and quickly developed into the worst epidemic in the city's history, it was hard to doubt the official line - let alone the evidence of the senses - that the stink was to blame...
...options abound for shoe shoppers. Last month Gap Inc. launched Piperlime, an online footwear retailer with more than 100 brands, free shipping and tips from guest editors like stylist Rachel Zoe. Another new venture, té casan, in New York City's SoHo, sells the work of seven up-and-coming designers. And at Scholl, Diego Dolcini has transformed the classic Toebar into a sexy stiletto, left...