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...Urban lodge? Unlike a Shrager-inspired boutique hotel, where cool, sleek design often comes off cold, Hoxton Hotel has the homey comforts of a rural inn. Yet, says Beecham, "It's got concrete floors, exposed columns and exposed ceilings - it's very urban." Simon Woodroffe, owner of the YO! Sushi restaurant chain, is taking a similar, less-is-more approach to hospitality. Later this month he opens his first "Yotel" at London's Gatwick Airport. "We're doing what I call the Holy Grail of retail: delivering what rich people have to ordinary people," says Woodroffe...
...Groovy Snack range by Joanne Windaus Stylishly sleek and functional, Windaus' work is the Audi of the porcelain world. The British-born, Bauhaus-influenced designer, who has lived in Germany for 30 years, brings unusual geometries to everyday items. Yet these finely corrugated pieces, equally at home with sushi or Continental breakfast, show that form can follow function. www.joannewindaus.com...
...Californian oranges in Japan nowadays as easily as Japanese persimmons in California. Sometimes-as in the Memoirs of a Geisha movie, on which Dalby worked as a consultant, and where classic Japanese forms had to be adapted to suit modern tastes-the cross-pollination produces what Dalby calls a "sushi sandwich." But often, as in the "Brie-cheese maki" she puts inside her daughter's Berkeley lunch-box, the cultures can be combined to form something tasty...
...card to buy yourself sushi at the Cafe. Then spike his latte with the wasabi...
Haruko Ohmae, the lead character in the hit new Japanese TV drama Haken no Hinkaku, has the sort of job skills that should get her hired on the spot. She can program a computer, chop sushi, speak Russian, operate heavy equipment - and this being Japan, pour tea. But Haruko doesn't have a full-time job. She's a part-timer, a temp - hence the title of the show, which roughly translates to "the dignity of temp workers...