Archive for April 1st, 2006
Built in 1912, overlooking the famous Bay of Angels, and classified a National Historic Monument in 1974, the Hotel Negresco is one of the few remaining privately owned palaces still existing in the world.
Jeanne Augier, owner and chairman, has created a unique living museum. Her desire to share her passion for art with her clients. Throughout the hotel, epic periods in the history of France are represented, from the renaissance to the 3rd Millenium.
For nearly a century the mythical Hotel NEGRESCO has dominated the Promenade des Anglais on the Baie des Anges with its huge pink dome. Its magical name evokes a certain “art de vivre” and the happy go lucky days of the “Edwardian era”.
The Hotel Negresco Nice is one of the most exclusive deluxe hotels in the world on Nice’s famous Promenade des Anglais. A prestigious address for travellers who cherish the elegance of traditional French taste. Now a perpetual landmark with palatial public rooms, rare tapestries, rich carpeting and masterpieces of art grace this chateau-style Hotel Negresco Nice.
The decoration of each one of their 121 guestrooms and 24 suites has been inspired by the most outstanding periods of French art and history. Rooms have been individually decorated to reflect styles as different as Louis XIII and art deco.
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April 1st, 2006
The Givenchy Spa, at Hotel Martinez, is a true sanctuary of health and beauty, a haven of peace, a highly pleasurable area that blends the love of aesthetics with advanced research reaching well into the 21st Century. It offers care treatment through gestures and essential techniques that relax the mind and the body, harmonize the silhouette, revive the skin and generally preserve youth.
The Givenchy Spa is the privileged place for men and women seeking lasting health, beauty and youth. All treatments offered have been designed to suit this very purpose. A specialiezed team has designed for Givenchy the entire range of treatments offered at the Spa. It has also selected and trained all the masseurs and beauticians and has equipped the treatment rooms. The equipment to be found there is amongst the most sophisticated in the world.
Spa Givenchy is a true temple of esthetics, a haven of peace, a space of dream which combines the love of beautiful and the avant-garde of a research projected in the 21e century. It offers care, gestures and essential techniques which slacken the spirit, harmonize the silhouette, ressourcent the skin and prolong youth.
Spa Givenchy is a place privileged for the men and the women who wish to preserve longest possible, health, beauty and youth. All the treatments suggested were created to meet this aim. A specialized team conceived for Givenchy the whole of the treatments offered to Spa. This one in addition selected and formed the totality of the masseurs and aestheticians, and equipped our cabins. The material used one of is sophisticated in the world.
April 1st, 2006
2006 is starting off under the sign of innovation for Salviati. Today, Salviati combines research on glass and changing designs with explicit efforts to make this formidable material more accessible to a young, dynamic and resolutely urban target.
The bowl is the emblem for this new focus: an object for daily use, humble and essential, requiring the designer and glassmaker to face up to streamlined designs through a process of subtraction. It is therefore the effect of the surface, the texture, the material in its purest state that stands out.
So here we have a range of objects to be used, designed to mark the home and life, to provide a magic touch for the day-to-day, to allow us to rediscover our love for beauty and fun, even in everyday small things. Simplicity, beauty, irony: that is what the new Salviati wave is all about.
Pop: the smooth black surface is dotted with white walls, a stunning tessellate mosaic.
Vertigo, Spin: slim rods of white glass are merged on the surface of the object. The turning of the blowpipe in the hands of the master glassmaker imbues the glass with a circular movement. The hypnotic effect is guaranteed.
A powerful breath of life modelling a drop of changing material at the end of a metal pipe: in essence, all the master glassmaker’s art stems from this act. The Drops series, produced in Murano, celebrates this act with the simplicity and lightness of spontaneous and random lines.
Today, this series is being enriched with a new miniature size in several colours, to charmingly decorate all corners of the home, to make all the beauty of a thousand-year-old tradition accessible to reflect a new art of living. For the beginning of this year, the Drops are dressed in black. A total black look for a sophisticated version, in the spirit of the latest trends. The know-how of a craftsman, a seductive design and fashionable colours: that is all the Salviati spirit in a few small drops.
April 1st, 2006
In line with its value strategy, Rémy Martin confirms its position as market leader in Fine Champagne superior qualities and accelerates its growth in strategic markets.
Rémy Martin’s history and experience in the Fine Champagne appellation guarantees its cognacs unrivalled quality. At the beginning of 2005, Alliance Fine Champagne was created a co-operative bringing together Rémy Martin’s wine growing partners who are committed to the lasting quality and virtues of Fine Champagne eaux-de-vie. To consolidate its position with up-market cognacs, Rémy Martin focused its efforts on its three leading brands, VSOP, XO and Louis XIII.
VSOP Fine Champagne, a flagship of the Rémy Martin brand and an icon in its category, strengthened its market leadership. New red and gold packaging on a slender bottle now represents the contemporary elegance of an outstanding cognac. Reinvented to suit new consumption trends, VSOP is more than ever a benchmark in bars throughout the world. From the Specialist of Fine Champagne Cognac, this cognac has been blended from a selection of our finest VSOP eaux-de-vie,our Exclusive Reserves which have aged between 5 and 15 years. This gives a cognac which offers a rich tasting experience, with dried apricot, jasmine, hazelnut, vanilla and liquorice notes. VSOP Réserve Exclusive is ideal to be enjoyed neat, on ice or with coffee.
The Rémy Martin brand appeals to an increasing number of consumers seeking the best quality and it has established a strong position in strategic markets. It recorded healthy growth in the US, its leading market, and in China where the exceptional reputation of the “centaur brand” should result in impressive growth. Alongside the progress made in these two markets, the brand has continued its growth in the UK, Japan and Russia. It also strengthened its leading position in the travel retail trade with the launch of the limited edition “Voyage” range.
April 1st, 2006
A masterpiece of haute horlogerie was created in the Glashütte Original manufactory, emerging from the strive for perfection and the traditional values of the demanding art of watchmaking: the modern Tourbillon Regulator in platinum, limited to 100 pieces worldwide.
The spatial separation of the hours, minutes, and seconds on the dial has a long tradition in Glashütte’s watchmaking. This type of time display was previously used as an exact instrument for timekeeping. It was less the display of hours that was so important, and more the display of precise minutes and seconds.
The Tourbillon Regulator interprets the extraordinary design of a classic regulator display in a modern manner. The displays for hours, minutes, and seconds are separated from each other and arranged vertically in a highly legible manner. The tourbillon builds the visual center of the dial, and it is from here that the ray-shaped guilloché pattern emanates, visually symbolizing the flow of energy. The tripartite, three-dimensional dial made of white gold is hand-guilloché and galvanized black. The middle part forms the base segment of this lavishly created dial.
The expressiveness and precision of the dial is continued in the solid platinum case and movement design. Its structure is evident in the satin-finished case with polished bezels on the front and back. The gear train bridge represents a premiere for Glashütte Original as it has been hand-engraved with a floral pattern. The crown is topped off by an onyx cabochon.
The Tourbillon Regulator in platinum is limited to 100 pieces worldwide.
April 1st, 2006
