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Sponsors are lining up to lend support: The Cavalli Club, for example, an upmarket restaurant and lounge designed by Roberto Cavalli in the Dubai Fairmont Hotel, is sponsoring "Swan Lake".
They also have access to an athletes' lounge, designed for their exclusive use by our partners Powerade for relaxing at the end of the day.
The sleek One Aldwych (1 Aldwych; 011-44-20-7300-0500; doubles from $440), meanwhase, has unveiled a private guest lounge designed by the British interiors star Mary Fox Linton; it includes a library with books chosen by the hotel's Covent Garden neighbor Paul Smith.
Now it is a bowling lounge designed to evoke the wonder and faint dread of a New York subway station, with graffiti adorning the walls and the bowling lanes running like subway tracks.
Van Doren took me downstairs, to look at the gilded facade of Rockefeller Center through the window of a specially ventilated cigar lounge, designed to increase the building's appeal to international smokers.
The next big splash was the International Casino, a combined nightclub, restaurant and cocktail lounge designed by Lamb and Donald Deskey in streamlined Moderne style".The whole place is a show," The Times said.
Start your bar hopping at Henry Good Seven (81-3-5220-0267; www.htmls-west.com/henry.html), a stylish lounge designed by Wonderwall, known for its A Bathing Ape stores, the chic hip-hop Japanese clothing line.
Before saying goodbye, we stopped in the lounge designed to evoke Chinatown, and took in the golden dragon and pagoda touches that now define where national editors bustled and executive editors pondered the hiring decisions they wished they could take back.
There, embellishments -- meant for executives and entrepreneurs who want a place to conduct business when they are in town -- will include a business center with teleconferencing and video equipment and a terraced entertainment lounge designed by Adam D. Tihany, with a catering kitchen.
