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Venice: Molino Stucky, Europe's Largest Restoration

July 26, 2009
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Venice: Molino Stucky, Europe's Largest Restoration

On Giudecca, just across the way from the main Venetian archipelago, the distinctive red brick complex has been a city landmark for years. A four-year, 200 million-Euro restoration has carefully incorporated its original factory architecture with all the mod-cons of contemporary hostelry, including those, like a rooftop pool, that are new to Venice.

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Review: Paris Secrets

July 14, 2009
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Review: Paris Secrets

Lovers of the City of Light will lap up the gorgeous photos in Paris Secrets: Architecture, Interiors, Quartiers, Corners — even if the book’s generic copy sets their teeth on edge. Author (and photographer) Janelle McCulloch has an obvious love tor Paris, and she has extensive experience writing about interiors and architecture for a...

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Zurich: Macarons, Swiss-style

July 7, 2009
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Zurich: Macarons, Swiss-style

There they were, mounded into a perfect pyramid of delicate symmetry. They looked like French macarons, and they were being distributed at Art Basel. A rosy pink inside and out, they were more lovely, more moving, more -- impactful!-- than just about anything else I'd seen

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Editor’s Corner

Robert DiGiacomo questions which "new" landmarks will be considered classics some day.

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