Despite clearly being a boutique hotel, the '70s styled lobby, backyard patio/bar and rooftop club are all spacious and provide ample enough room for the many parties hosted in the hotel (including the launch party for Playboy Israel earlier this summer!).
For something completely original, the eccentric Atlanta Hotel (00 66 2 252 6069; www.theatlantahotel.bizland.com) is a Bangkok legend – the original 1950s Art Deco-styled lobby was the setting for Wong Kar Wai's film, In the Mood for Love.
The art gallery-styled lobby is the entry point for a number of restaurants and bars, including Indigo on the Roof, a 360-degree panorama restaurant that has some of the best-trained bartenders in Lebanon.
A soaring, art-filled lobby is styled like an oversized living room by Swiss furniture brand Vitra, while Amsterdam's leading creative bookshop, Mendo, also has an outpost here.
Jimmy LaSalvia and Christopher R. Barron, the founders of a gay conservative lobbying group that styled itself after the tea party, have never feared controversy.
Fred Wertheimer, the president of Common Cause, the self-styled citizens' lobby that was formed in the aftermath of Watergate, said the reforms had "fundamentally changed the rules of the game" and would prove to be of historic importance in American government.
But the bill's advocates felt, as Scott Harshbarger, president of Common Cause, the self-styled citizens' lobby, put it today, that 14 separate votes would have assured "almost a guaranteed loss" for the measure in the end.
Locals, as well as visitors, gather in the lobby's sleek but comfortable living room styled setups--anchored by a blazing gas fireplace, it's a hard place to resist.
But there were those among the anti-imperialist lobby in Washington (well represented among the internationalists who now fashionably styled themselves Keynesians) who considered bankrupt Britain as great a threat to peace as Stalin's Russia.
With this new status came the inviolability of the person of God's anointed (a characteristically Davidic idea) and a court rhetoric adapted from pagan models in which the king was styled "the [firstborn] son of God".
