They are museums, as the art critic Dave Hickey once put it, for people who "love the winning side, the side with the chic buildings, the gaudy doctorates and the star-studded cast".
Suffice to say, I've seen most of my best and some of my worst in this shabby-chic building that defies itself to produce them – you try a tense moment in an Edinburgh Suite play when there's a stomp moment on stage in the vast Music Hall above.
Affiliated with O2 Living, a holistic spa and wellness center in the charming cluster of rustic-chic buildings that is the Yellow Monkey Village, the cafe offers an array of dishes to eat in or take out that are colorful, inventive and mostly raw.
Hounded and shamed by the usual coalition of bird-lovers and co-op haters, besieged by hawk chic, the building agreed to take Pale Male back.
Separate from Tel Aviv's beach scenes and chic Bauhaus buildings, South Tel Aviv is home base for an ingathering of migrant workers from far-flung countries and exiles who come to Israel to work or start a new life.
Here, a tastefully chic nine-story building called 33 Vestry will, in a few months, become one of the area's new landmarks.
As CEO of Vetrazzo, a Richmond, Calif., firm that makes chic high-end building materials out of recycled glass, James Sheppard has embraced cloud computing.
LOCATION Emma is on a handsome tree-lined street in the Eixample, the upscale neighborhood around the Passeig de Gràcia, domain of grand apartment buildings, chic boutiques and restaurants for the expense-account set.
In the next few days, the rebels also stormed into Aleppo, Syria's largest city and its commercial center, pressing all the way to the walls of the Old City — a labyrinth of alleyways and narrow streets that contain ancient buildings, chic hotels, and a villa belonging to the shoe designer Christian Louboutin, a favorite of Syria's First Lady.
