Sitting on a bench outside the down-market, neon-lit nail salon where she gets manicures, Chastain says her favorite movies are Chaplin's 1921 "The Kid" (thus the dog's name), which she describes as "devastating, the lightness and this sense of play," and "Terms of Endearment," the first serious movie she saw, with her mom and grandma, sitting on the living room couch.
Looking a little like a Marrakesh riad transplanted to Austria, Arte Vida has a lantern-lit communal salon and a Moorish garden replete with tent and shisha pipes.
The attractive salon, lit by a fine painting of giant sunflowers and a big window, has a piano and rather theatrical wall drapery; the breakfast room is wonderfully medieval with its stone vault, ancient well and tapestried chairs - modernity appearing in the form of designer reeds and a generous breakfast.
The Spanish-style villa, built in 1929, features archways, frescoed ceilings, a library, a loggia, a sky-lit kitchen, a sun room, a beauty salon, four bedrooms, 5.5 bathrooms and 6,289 square feet of living space.
Twice a week, every Sunday and Monday night, around a dozen New Yorkers gather in long, candle-lit studio apartment nestled between a hair salon and some warehouses in one of Brooklyn's latest hip neighborhoods.
In one of his periodic flip-flops, he went whole-hog for Louis XV, creating a grand "salon bleu" with pieces covered in silk velour brocade, a lit à la turque and an Aubusson rug from Versailles.
René Beyer, chief executive of the Zurich-based Beyer, one of the most prestigious Swiss watch retailers, said that he had no plans to step beyond the cream-colored confines of Palexpo, Geneva's main exhibition center, which was refitted with plush sofas for the salon — a clear departure from its normally drab and neon-lit environment.
The more ramshackle beauty salons have gaudy hand painted signs, and sit sandwiched between seedy bars, DVD sellers, and starkly lit brothels.
