Dakshin 68 Broad Street, Stamford (203 964-1010 Excellent ATMOSPHERE -- Indian in spirit, with a colorful carved screen on one wall, wood sculptures, hanging lanterns and walls painted in vibrant shades of rose, papaya and mango.
The hall also contains a large carved screen at one end covering the entrance to the Vestibule.
Think richly carved screens, a living room, separate dining room, and stupendous terrace looking onto the pyramids.
Shanghai's first attempt at a modern 'design hotel' is all very zen and stylish with pale walls, wooden floors, carved screens, tinkling fountains and white bed linen.
The main dining rooms downstairs are trying for a rehabilitated-opium-den look (lots of pillows, carved screens, pinups in the bathrooms), but they can't quite rise above the dank basement feeling (exposed brick, visible plumbing, and a sense of being too far from a safe exit).
Frances Wong's cluttered little house just outside town is a virtual museum of Chinese tchotchkes: an ornately carved Chinese screen she picked up at a yard sale once, red silk screens of Chinese calligraphy on the walls, a Chinese-English Bible.
Tiny and towerless, with 15th-century wooden fixtures intact, St. Edith's is simplicity itself, save its intricately carved rood screen.
The house has been beautifully maintained and has a remarkable music room, with an entire wall made up of an intricately carved walnut screen for the house's pipe organ.
Inside, its rooms and arcades display striking zellige mosaics, delicately carved cedarwood screens and stucco, set around a courtyard.
Instead, seek out the Pan Dei Palais hotel (52, rue Gambetta; 33-4-94-17-71-71; pandei.com), whostatuesed wofden screens and statues of Hindu gods feel right out of Rajasthan.
To original gothic arches, carved rood screens, panelling and ornate plasterwork, they have added recycled pews, candelabras, a rich medieval colour scheme of reds, greens and cobalts and rather a lot of teddies.
