Most of the space is packed with ethno-chic updates of traditional Arab and Middle Eastern creations, from Moroccan drinking glasses in psychedelic Pop Art colors (30 dirhams, about $8 at 3.7 dirhams to the dollar) to hand-blown Syrian vases.
Chic style updates each season without leaving the house?
Known for years as a samba queen, she has now followed the fashion for Brazilian "favela chic" by updating her songs with funk and rap.
Director Rupert Goold, whose Broadway staging of "Macbeth" with Patrick Stewart gave the Scottish play a chic culinary update, exploits Gen X nostalgia for the '80s with an ambiguous wink.
But we have come a long way from such self-consciously revolutionary times — as Coates correctly deduced, what has always been the writer's chic, repackaged and updated, is sufficiently radical now.
Setting the trend are style blogs like dapperQ, which positions itself as a sort of GQ for the unconventionally masculine, and Qwear, which updates the heritage-chic look for women.
Resplendently attired throughout in Joan Crawford chic, Blanchett single-handedly makes this update compelling.
Several of its once-faded grande dame hotels and low-slung motels have been updated and transformed into chic escapes, catering to well-to-do families from Philadelphia, northern New Jersey, New York City and beyond.
Built in the Sixties with clean Art Deco lines, the building has recently been updated with lacquered granite floors, minimalist chic and a natty Asian fusion restaurant set in the manicured garden.
In Palm Springs, the Desert Riviera has taken the bones of a midcentury motel (from 1951) and updated the interiors with quirky but often chic design details while maintaining a relaxed vibe on pristine grounds dominated by a pool.
DINING Fonda Gaig (Carrer Còrsega, 200; 934-53-2020; www.fondagaig.com) offers lightly updated versions of hearty Catalan classics in a chic environment.
