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...room, a giant candelabra ordered by Czar Nicholas II stands next to chairs designed for Indian maharajas. Another features a surreal canopy (pictured) painted by French artist Gérard Garouste, inspired by the symbols of alchemy: air, water, earth and fire. Throughout the museum, Starck contrasts the sumptuous and the simple. In the tableware showroom, for instance, bare concrete walls surround a 13-m-long display table full of crystalline astonishments. The only thing missing? A glass slipper. Maison Baccarat, 11 Place des Etats-Unis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Walkin' In A Crystal Wonderland | 1/4/2004 | See Source »

...think it was all right to represent himself as a Ph.D. after purchasing an ersatz degree from an online Argentinean institution that required neither classes nor tests for “graduation.” That incident, as regrettable as it was, involved only one bad apple in the sumptuous bushels of Harvard’s faculties. How much greater, then, is the threat posed by the innumerable professors and graduate students at Harvard who hail from that barely-accredited university on the banks of the—oh. Right. Yale doesn’t have a river...

Author: By The CRIMSON Staff, | Title: Woof Woof, Handsome Dan | 11/21/2003 | See Source »

...Bible; it's a travel journal, and it's part of Ghurka's extensive collection of fine leather goods and accessories. Everything here (wallets, garment bags, backpacks and totes) is sumptuous--and very expensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Web Shopping Guide: For The Globetrotter | 11/17/2003 | See Source »

...really the shrunken offspring of the vinyl LP sleeve, which was big enough to be almost a poster included with your album. It didn’t lend itself as well to belabored liner note essays or tributes—sorry Moby—but it gave artists a sumptuous amount of space to flaunt their chosen image or visual artistic vision...

Author: By Andrew R. Iliff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sound and Fury | 11/14/2003 | See Source »

...After a sumptuous lunch served by uniformed waiters, the Boss heads for the Goa airport, where his private Boeing 727 is prepped for take-off. Is the destination Monaco, Gstaad or any number of other international playgrounds befitting the 47-year-old glamour boy of Indian business? Hardly. Vijay Mallya is hitting the campaign trail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life of the Party | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

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