Austere-chic boutique hotel with an excellent Thai restaurant, Kittichai, and the best view in SoHo from the A60 club on the roof (hotel guests and VIP members only).
But its austere 1940s chic is what captivated me and why I choose the more graphic beaded sample for the Big Five, largely to make a point.
Like the composer, who often posed as an exquisitely clothed dandy staring defiantly at the camera, "Persé phone" can seem at once austere and chic until you get past the pose.
In 1930, Henri Manuel was commissioned to photograph the new quarters: they are austere but chic, and there is a picture of the "authors' room", which, as Gallimard proudly explained to Valery Larbaud, "will be equipped with writing tables, telephones, good armchairs, a bar and a view of the garden".
A minimal roll neck has generally been agreed as a modern evening alternative in place of collar and tie and if you're after something along these lines in a lighter cotton, just head to COS, which has austere monk-chic on a platter.
The room is chic, austere, and ultimately a bore; the staff is attentive, knowledgeable, and almost uncomfortably obeisant.
It doesn't always have the same implications; in "Barbara," it's a mere elegance that dresses a potboiling story in the austere and streamlined chic fashions of a gentrified cinema; in "Aurora," it represents political and sociological intentions.
Penn, a longtime contributor to Vogue, began his career in the forties and soon became known for his chic fashion photography, austere portraits, and unusual still-lifes.
"It was a place that looked rather glossy on the surface -- it was quite chic looking, barren and austere -- and nothing in it worked, including me.
For years, Moffit's work has been defined by its austere, hyper-masculine geometric forms that match the macabre chic of his gallery, Blackman Cruz.
