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...style grid system for streets in London, has taken to carrying a compass to find his way around town. Now he can look slightly less conspicuous standing on Piccadilly trying to find Regent Street. Hermès cleverly found a way to hide a compass beneath the watch's stainless steel face. It's the second recent hit for Hermès, which has been making straps since the 1920s. In 1999 a double wrap strap became a fetish for fashion editors. A new version will debut this fall...
Feel cramped in your SUV? Relief is at hand in the eight-ton, 9-ft.-tall MaxiMog Global Expedition Vehicle, designed by Bran Ferren, and now featured in the high-tech "Workspheres" exhibit at New York City's Museum of Modern Art. Crafted of stainless steel on a modified Mercedes-Benz Unimog truck chassis, the MaxiMog has a 360-h.p. engine. The vehicle is street-legal in the U.S. and Europe, yet it can ford a 6-ft.-deep stream and climb a 45[degree] slope. For a mere $500,000 to $800,000, you can order a customized Maximog...
...inaugural exhibit of Vienna's new Kunsthalle, and then on to Zurich's Migros Museum and then to New York. Normally it leaves no viewer unmoved. Called Cloaca, it consists of some $200,000 worth of chemical beakers, electric pumps and plastic tubing arrayed on a row of antiseptic stainless steel tables. When Cloaca is on exhibit, an attendant climbs the metal staircase at one end twice a day to offer up a good solid meal to the machine. The food is "chewed" by a garbage disposal before passing on to the first beaker, where it is squirted with pepsin...
...band at the Fringe packs up, and Fai and his mates head out into the street to find out where the women are. They decide to stop at Home, a Plexiglas and stainless steel dance club several blocks away. There are a few tightly packed groups in the place, but none of those wandering eyes Fai is looking for. "Might as well enjoy the music," he says and goes into the corner to smoke a joint with his friends...
Most of the paraphernalia in the room conjures images of kidnap, persecution and torture. A leather body bag crumples in the corner; block and tackle dangle overhead. A lonely stainless-steel dog bowl sits inside a cage just big enough for an adult human. But Decima insists it's all for fun. "I find the idea of one person hitting another absolutely abhorrent - unless it is part of a consensual, adult experience," she says. Decima always makes sure customers have a prearranged "safe word" that will stop the scene if it goes too far. She goes...