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Wynn and Adelson have done more to remake Las Vegas than anyone else, and yet no two businessmen could be less alike. Wynn is Vegas royalty, the artist who rejuvenated the Strip by going upmarket in tone with the Bellagio, which showcased Van Goghs and Cezannes and Degas's dancers instead of topless showgirls. He lost the place to raider Kirk Kerkorian, who took over Wynn's company, Mirage Resorts, and booted Wynn, who scored a $6.4 billion payout but still had a score to settle. Last year Wynn returned with the new Wynn Las Vegas: more hushed, more exclusive...
...boudoir-like fittings for upmarket Spanish bathroom manufacturer Artquitect, with crystal-ceramic basins on dressing-table-like legs, laser-cut mirrors and gilt surface finishes, left the design trade press in a lather of excitement. Showtime, Hay?n's subsequent furniture collection for another Spanish design brand, BD, also gives period features a sleek pop twist. There is a gleaming lacquered sideboard that can have up to six differently shaped legs, and a canopied armchair that resembles a 21st century hansom...
...hallmark, too. Having won a cult following in 2004 for his zany yet unsettling space-invader figurines - which were, not surprisingly, big in Japan - Hayón then broke through last year in that most conservative corner of product design, the bathroom. His boudoir-like fittings for upmarket Spanish bathroom manufacturer Artquitect, with crystal-ceramic basins on dressing-table-like legs, laser-cut mirrors and gilt surface finishes, left the design trade press in a lather of excitement. Showtime, Hayón's subsequent furniture collection for another Spanish design brand, BD, also gives period features a sleek pop twist...
...just plain middle class, but I talk as if my family live in a stately home and don't have to work. My ancestors were mainly teachers, vicars, profs and bishops - careers which might require a top-of-the-range voice. That may explain why I speak a distinctly upmarket version of received pronunciation (RP) - shorthand for the standard English of bbc newsreaders. Which is fine if you want to marry a landowner or work in a top art auction house, but not so much fun if you just want to fade into the background. People make assumptions: men think...
...deeper, wider wave of opposition to this than to any of our other reforms." Is the resistance just misguided nostalgia? Properties the size of the Hôtel Kinsky in central Paris are rare, "but its interior is neither historic nor stately," sniffs Thierry Cardot, whose Luxury Observatory researches upmarket markets. He reckons the shack may go for under half its valuation of €57 million, but notes "better opportunities will come as these sales progress." Apartment hunters, take note...