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...been around for years how to do theirs." Matthew Gibson, double-bass player and board member of the London Symphony Orchestra, says of Harding: "We all think he'll be one of the greats in 10 or 15 years." Harding's recordings (he's signed exclusively to Virgin Classics) have been mixed so far, but last year's issue of Britten's opera The Turn of the Screw revealed a new depth pushing through his characteristic incisiveness. But Harding is the first to concede that he has some ripening to do: "I feel I'm a grown-up artist...
...first of those was a 1999 studio and home for the painter Chris Ofili, creator of the notorious Virgin Mary with elephant dung that enraged New York City's mayor Rudy Giuliani when it turned up in "Sensation." But the place that put Adjaye on the map was the so-called Elektra house, built for a pair of conceptual artists in the Whitechapel neighborhood that Jack the Ripper once prowled. It's plain at first sight that this is no cozy cottage. It's more like an urban battlement, a place that turns its face from what is mostly...
...death, a couple flies together through the air, as Chagall and Bella had done in so many of his other paintings. Those airborne pairs are his loveliest contribution to Western imagery, a secular version of Christianity's great floating figures, the Ascension of Christ and the Assumption of the Virgin Mary...
This fall is going to be a great time to sit down. Toilets and airline seats are both getting a kick up the luxury ladder, thanks to Japanese toiletmaker Toto and Virgin Atlantic Airways, among others. In September Toto will introduce the U.S. to Neorest, left, a combination bidet-toilet that may very well be smarter than you are first thing in the morning. It knows when you're ready to use it (the lid lifts as you approach) and when you're done (the lid closes, and the toilet flushes). It even knows what has gone on in between...
...leather-upholstered airline seat, right, in Virgin Atlantic's new Upper Class Suite needs a little more prompting (you actually have to push a button), but then it does a pretty nifty trick of its own, flipping over to become an 80in. foam-mattress bed. It's the latest weapon in the seat wars airlines are waging for coveted business-class passengers. Each of the aisle-only chairs comes with a customizable lumbar support--and an ottoman, just in case you need to conduct an onboard staff meeting or order up an in-flight beauty-therapy treatment. Virgin is spending...