I was still in my mother's womb when Wilkes Bashford, a man with two last names, infinite elegance, and a Victorian idea of customer service, opened the doors to his temple of high fashion, endless style, and luxury in San Francisco.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, Oct. 18 — South Asians call it "the best run Indian city," Arabs celebrate it as a model of Arab accomplishment, and Westerners embrace it for its endless sunshine and luxury lifestyle.
While this endless stream of luxury cars and landscaping trucks can demoralize even the most ardent country squire, the land in Sagaponack north and south of the highway still has very little commercial activity.
The river would, for a few hours or so, be a simulated working river, rather than what it currently is, an ornament for an endless parade of luxury apartment complexes.
And yet we're destroying them, selling them off, leaving us at risk – particularly in London – of creating endless deserts of luxury flats, let by investor owners or maintained by absentee owners from Hong Kong or Moscow who use them as pads to drop into a couple of times a year, tended by workers travelling from distant empty commuter suburbs and towns with weary resignation.
After seven years of nonstop construction, skyrocketing rents and sales prices, and a seemingly endless appetite for luxury housing that transformed gritty and glamorous neighborhoods alike, the credit crisis and the turmoil on Wall Street are bringing New York's real estate boom to an end.
Unless you have the luxury of endless time, you might find that a trip to Bali can only include a few days in Ubud.
WHILE a Socialist, Ms. Amara said she was disgusted with the party's taste for luxury and its endless leadership battles.
The proposed solutions to the housing crisis are endless: more zoning (so that luxury apartments don't take over the city); less zoning (so that developers are encouraged to build more); micro-apartments (a tower of three-hundred-square-foot units is currently being leased in Kips Bay).
Last night, we held our collective breath, waiting to see whether Fabric would be the next victim of the ongoing campaign by local councils, the Mayor's Office and their property developer buddies to gentrify, sanitise and vanilla-fy London into an endless series of poorly built "luxury" flats and pastel-coloured "leisure and retail complexes".
