Right now, Astra has the smartest addresses in Europe.Change, however, gives its competitor a chance; and there are big changes afoot in Europe's satellite market.
Where to stay Away from the bustle, in a cream 1950s villa located in one of the city's smartest addresses, is Delhi's first boutique hotel.
Yet now a small population of Zamenis longissimus is flourishing in London NW1, a stone's throw – or a snake's slither – from one of the capital's smartest addresses, Primrose Hill.
"He said, 'It's not very often that managers call to recommend staff.'" A few days later Crouch found himself on the team at the Grosvenor House Hotel, working to relaunch one of London's smartest addresses.
Undaunted, on January 15th John Thain will leave one of Manhattan's smartest addresses, the unmarked headquarters of Goldman Sachs at 85 Broad Street, for the chief executive's suite at the NYSE, a few hundred yards down the road.Hiring Mr Thain, Goldman's second most-important executive, is something of a coup.
With its pressed-tin ceiling, 120-year-old, hand-carved maple bar and antique till, this saloon has the pedigree of a museum piece and, as part of the elegant Victorian Hotel Jerome (001 970 920 1000, hoteljerome.rockresorts.com), one of the smartest addresses in town.
In London, who ever expected Hackney might become a smart address?
Their grandparents worked the land, their parents moved to a provincial town, they have come to the big city and their children, they hope, will move on to a smarter address.
A fastidious, sophisticated bachelor with loads of personal style, a smart address in Blue Hill, Me., and a taste for fine art and rare books, Tucker will be missed by all who knew him.
