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[...] I got over the notion diat I needed tons of clothes and began saving for pieces I really wanted It's hardly the American way, but it's a better choice for your closet and the environment (Did you know the average American throws away 68 pounds of clothing and textiles a year?) Second, I went to indie designers' sample sales- anotiier advantage that New York shoppers have over the rest of the country (for sale news, try refinery29.com, a website devoted to the indies). [...] I checked out die thrift stores for everydaybasics like cardigans, blazers, and button-down shirts that are much better quality and far cheaper than the chains.
...If s like Starbucks for your scalp 342 West 14th Street, 212-9896282; 843 Lexington Avenue, se... much of his collection tends toward the British and American, enthusiasts can also pick up Zulus, ... antiques that are more functional than decorative, like old-timey washboards (think of all the quart...
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... the various Hamburg American Line vessels on West Indies services. Already having a working agreemen... of the best in contemporary Edwardian décor, it was furnished with hand-carved furniture uphol... Fruit Steamship Company subsidiary with a British captain and crew of 78 officers and men and regist...
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... Village White Sands with new furnishings, dEcor, restaurant, bar and lounge and more. The 261-room... of Anguilla in the Leeward Islands of the British West Indies. Plans call for an $80 million renovat...
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Think bellbottom jeans, bamboo purses, glitter socks and platform shoes. Now translate that image into furniture and you have a pretty good idea of the types of home furnishings featured during the semiannual High Point International Furniture Market in April.
Were seeing sleeker lines, chrome and a sort of return to retro, said Barry Ambrose of Ambrose Furniture.
... one of about 80,000 store owners and decorators from 50 states and more than 100 foreign countries... of Tommy Bahama, Ernest Hemingway and the British West Indies look thats really dominated the market...
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The British HMS Dreadnought of 1906 (closing the Ironclad epoc...She was the largest and most ornately decorated ship of her time and was the first-ever bona fide ... North African corsairs preying on vessels west of the English Channel. Though critics warned that... been utilized to hit the Dutch in the East Indies, then Sovereign would have required a number of pr...
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It takes about a week to become a local here on Exuma.
Our first night, we head to the manager's cocktail reception at the pink limestone Club Peace & Plenty, which has housed island guests for half a century.
... miles south from Nassau to the edge of the West Indies. Great Exuma is the largest. Most of the lo..., formerly Grand Isle Villas, with handsome decor inside and lush plantings outside, plus the tall, ...Insight Guides Bahamas explains that the British crown granted Englishman Denys Rolle 7,000 acres h...
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... between the Soviet-led East and the U.S.-led West. Finally, I evaluate evidence found in period news... leaving her on center stage to describe the decor and its historical significance. According to Kenn...The U.S. consul in Birmingham quoted the British press, which wrote that Mrs. Kennedy had "won frie... total number of viewers in the French West Indies would exceed 300,000 (USIA, 1963, p. 22). Invitati...
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Think bell-bottom jeans, bamboo purses, glitter socks and platform shoes. Now translate that image into furniture and you have a pretty good idea of the types of home furnishings featured during the semiannual High Point International Furniture Market in April.
Were seeing sleeker lines, chrome and a sort of return to retro, said Barry Ambrose of Ambrose Furniture.
... one of about 80,000 store owners and decorators from 50 states and more than 100 foreign countries... of Tommy Bahama, Ernest Hemingway and the British West Indies look thats really dominated the market...
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Michael Blank's eyes light up as he tells you how he traveled the world, from Jamaica to India to Spain, where he learned to make guitars... romanced various women until he crossed paths with soulmate Cynthia Lucas at a lobster fest five years ago... rode his first motorcycle from Chicago to Venice Beach, Calif., when he was 16.
Lucas, a quiet woman with black bangs, smiles as she listens and pours a beer -- make that a root beer -- behind a 14-foot bar in the Northwest Passage & Root Beer Saloon here.
...But it's the decor that's almost too much eye candy; it's been descri...He's cut and supplied maple from British Columbia to make Gibson guitars and now makes his ... oils from Italy and spice baskets from the West Indies. The guestbook lists visitors from all the ...