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...Wicker...
...opening, though, the Conservatory was mostly empty. Its wicker chairs sat unused and its impressive floral displays went unadmired during until the evening, when a few faculty and alumni filtered in from the main dining room...
EXCERPT FROM MARTHA'S COLUMN "I like to lie on the wicker chaise ...and listen to the birds' cheerful song...
...make. A string of restaurants where the food isn't the point, where the marketing plan and the look and feel of the room matter more than what's on the plate? That really is putting a fresh stamp on Paris. The idea has taken root. Goodbye wicker, hello chintz. Café owners across Paris have been imitating the Costes' haute-design blueprint to the point where it risks turning into a new café cliché. How much does the Costes formula bring in? As a patchwork of private companies - or "an informal network whose members have been tied...
CURBYs tend to live in urban enclaves--areas like Red Hook, Silver Lake and Wicker Park, where they have proximity to the collision of high art and pop culture that takes place in major cities (New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, respectively). But by living across a river or in a formerly industrial neighborhood, they find the cheaper rent and supportive, small-town feel that make working as an artist doable. "It's like this handy Petri dish of culture," says Kirsten Hively, who founded wburg.com a website about Williamsburg...