A hazy, overblown production, the record situated Torrini's music uncomfortably between Björk's florid electronic arias and the nameless, oily tracks that you hear in the lobbies of boutique hotels.
Luxury: Tokyo's most famous hotel may be the 110-year-old Imperial, 1-1-1 Uchisaiwai-cho, Chiyoda-ku, (81-3) 3504-1111, fax (81-3) 3581-9146, wits its cavernous Frank Lloyd Wright lobby, luxury boutiques, 1,059 rooms and proliferation of restaurants.
Indeed, a One Medical waiting room could be mistaken for a lobby at a boutique hotel or day spa.
A Chilean architect designed the super-stylish storefront of glass, wood, and stone, which feels more like the unfurnished lobby of a boutique hotel in Big Sur than a bodega that carries, among other things, endless varieties of olive oil.
Four months ago she joined Avenue Solutions, a boutique lobbying shop.
Heloise Lewis runs "a boutique lobbying firm whose mission statement identifies it as a nonprofit focused on income parity for all women".
"It's chipped away at the quality of work on both sides," says a senior Democratic operative, now a partner in an independent boutique lobbying and public relations firm.
After Bill Clinton's victory he and Lawrence F. O'Brien III, a Carter administration official, founded a boutique lobbying firm that was billing about $3 million a year by the end of the 1990's.
"There are already associations for public relations consultants, grassroots consultants, political intelligence consultants and much more," said Marlowe, the longtime leader of the Marlowe & Company boutique lobbying firm.
One of the many lobbyists in the scrum is Kirsten Chadwick, a partner at the Republican boutique lobbying firm of Fierce, Isakowitz & Balock.
In a recent article about how foreign lobbyists are making campaign donations, I cited the example of one of the lobbyists working for the Korean Embassy: Kirsten Chadwick, a partner at the Republican boutique lobbying firm of Fierce, Isakowitz & Balock.
