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...Lanta Yai, Rawi Warin (rawiwarin.com) joins the burgeoning roster of five-star resorts like Pimalai and Costa Lanta. Standard rooms feature polished woods and Thai silks, while the suites will awe you with their soaring ceilings. The cliff-top pool affords the best view of Lanta's dramatic sunset. Also on the Andaman Sea is Zeavola (zeavola.com). The 52 bungalows that dot the sand along Koh Phi Phi's Laem Tong Bay appear basic on approach, but first impressions deceive. Hip Bangkok design house Beyond Living has created colorful murals and textiles for these luxurious quarters, and outdoor showers come...
...arabesque of luminous lotus flowers, surrounded by lionesses with gleaming yellow eyes and other half-glimpsed animals from disparate continents. And in the most erotic work on view, the haunting Snake Charmer (1907), a woman's nude figure in dark silhouette stands by a river against an unearthly sunset - or is it moonrise? Flowers and grasses glow with an inner light. Her face is partly hidden by her flute and by the snake draped round her neck - we see only the pale glint of the whites of her eyes. Rousseau said that when he visited Paris' Botanic Gardens he felt...
...Finding the right moment to pucker up can be difficult. While a nice walk by the river during sunset may conjure up perfect romantic images in our minds, rarely are we presented with such a perfect moment...
...most beautiful stained glass window I’ve ever seen was one in which the different colors of glass were melted together, free from the defining black lines, to depict a sunset over the ocean. The horizon was sharp at the edges, but the pane blurred as the blue water and the yellow and red sky reflected the orange sun in the center, the colors spilling over each other in a fantastic display. Our eyes take in the world as a blur. It is only in our minds that lines are created in order for us to perceive...
...also pinpoints the precise locations of the then known stars, with delightful, fine-lined engravings of humans and animals marking the signs of the zodiac. During their occupation of Spain, Arabs invented the universal astrolabe, a mechanism that could be used in all latitudes to determine the times of sunset and sunrise as well as the precise minute of the day. The show displays one of the oldest examples, dated 1329 and signed by Ahmad Ibn al-Sarraj, an instrument maker in Syria. Though the Arabs built many observatories during the Golden Age, not many survived. But viewers...