Published: Feb 23, 2012
KYOTO — From the exterior, no one would expect that the nondescript industrial building, owned by the Japanese lingerie giant Wacoal, contains one of the world’s most prestigious clothing collections. Or that the building, a stark contrast to the city’s Buddhist temples, gorgeous gardens and mild-mannered monks, serves as
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Published: Feb 23, 2012
SARDIS, ALA. WHAT: A five-bedroom 1913 plantation house HOW MUCH: $650,000 SIZE: 8,000 square feet PER SQUARE FOOT: $81 SETTING: The white-columned two-story house is on 13 acres in a farming community six miles south of Selma. This house was built as the “big house” of a plantation, not included in the sale, that today produces cotton,
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Published: Feb 23, 2012
Q. Is it worth the cost to add custom-made shelving to a walk-in closet before listing my home for sale? A. Not if it tempts you to buy even more shoes. But if you can control yourself, a well-designed closet can be a selling feature, because it helps potential buyers envision where they would put all their things, says Roya Cohen, a vice president
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Published: Feb 23, 2012
It seemed quixotic at first, but maybe the idea of turning the Tappan Zee Bridge into a walkway after a new bridge is built is not so far fetched after all. State officials said Wednesday that they were exploring the possibility of turning the three-mile-long bridge into a route for pedestrians and bicyclists along the lines of the High Line on the
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Published: Feb 23, 2012
The weary sameness of life at sea has taken its toll on the crew members of the S.S. Glencairn. Even drunk, desperate and quarrelsome, these sullen salts rarely raise or otherwise vary their voices. They sound pretty much the same whether they’re anguished or angry or excited or on their deathbeds. The monotony of a sailor’s lot has
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Published: Feb 23, 2012
BY now, hidden speakeasy-style lounges are not much of a secret anymore. But what if the hidden doors were inside the place, too, tucked away tableside? That seems to be at least part of the draw at Stash, a jewel-box-size spot that opened New Year’s Eve under a sports bar. Every table and banquette contains hidden compartments where patrons
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Published: Feb 23, 2012
In 2013, Manolo Blahnik will celebrate 40 years in shoe design — since he came to England from the Canary Islands in the 1970s and was encouraged by the Vogue supremo Diana Vreeland to focus not on fashion but on “extremities.” As a kickoff to the coming celebrations, Lane Crawford at the IFC Mall in Hong Kong has opened a pop-up
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Published: Feb 23, 2012
OPENINGS This month, 10 years after opening her tiny boutique in the West Village, Juliana Cho has introduced a second ANNELORE store, three times the size, in TriBeCa. If you go to browse Ms. Cho’s impeccably modern 30-piece collection of dresses, blouses and skirts priced from $300 to $850, be sure to spy the dressing room doors, which were
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Published: Feb 23, 2012
WITH “Going Solo,” Eric Klinenberg may have written the book on living alone, but he didn’t include a how-to guide. “There’s no road map,” he said. “There’s not a lot of received wisdom for how to do it well.” Mr. Klinenberg was struck, for instance, by the number of young people who assumed
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Published: Feb 23, 2012
HARBORSIDE, Me. IT was early February, when the 10-hour day returns here on the 44th parallel, and Barbara Damrosch could see it in the brighter green leaves of her tatsoi and spinach growing in the unheated greenhouse attached to the house she shares with her husband, Eliot Coleman, at Four Season Farm. Mr. Coleman, 73, began farming here on Cape
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