Sirio Maccioni | Restauranteur - New York, Le Cirque at The Leela Palace | French-Italian Restaurant - New Delhi

This month, Sirio Maccioni took another giant stride across cultures and traditions as he announces his first Eastern adventure, with the unveiling of Le Cirque at The Leela Palace New Delhi.

The Leela Palace is found at the centre of the Diplomatic Enclave area of Lutyens’ Delhi district. A vast section of the city constructed in the early-to-mid Twentieth Century by renowned English architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, this was both splendid example of grand contemporary English architecture and symbol of colonial power. It boasts the impressive India Gate and what is now the Official Residence of the President of India, the magnificent Rashtrapati Bhavan, and plays host to the Prime Minister’s Office and a number of embassies.
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Silencio | Private Club and Nightclub, 2e Arrondissement - Paris

Awesome Private Club and Nightclub owned by Savoir Faire - Arnaud Frisch, Emmanuel Barron, and Anthony Caton.  Inspired by david Lynch´s Club Silencio in Mulholland Drive.  People involved with the architecture and design:  David Lynch, Raphaël Navot, ENIA, Ateliers Gohard, Thierry Dreyfus, Domeau et Pérès, Ingélux, Prototype Design, Zset, Signature Murale, Ferdinand Bal! 

Hôtel Jules et Jim | Hotel, 3e Arrondissement - Paris

Opening on December 1st, 2011, this super modern hotel by Antoine Brault & Geoffroy Sciard will feature 23 rooms, The Breakfast Room, Coctail Bar and a beautiful Courtyard!  Now open.

Le Bernardin | Seafood Restaurant, Midtown West - New York

Maguy Le Coze & Eric Ripert´s seafood restaurant reopening with a great design from Bentel & Bentel!

LN-CC | Concept Store, Hackney - London

Concept Store located in Hackney, East London.  Owned by John Skelton and Daniel Mitchell, and designed by Gary Card.

The Box | Bar & Nightclub - New York & London - Las Vegas Coming Soon

The transgressive impulse to plunge oneself down the rabbit hole of corporeal and psychological possibility seems to have been refracted a million times with the advent of the sheer multitudinous ambition of the metropolis. To experience The Box represents just that plunge - down into the dark and musky cleavage of the city, down into the obscure history of vaudeville and burlesque, and into this self-styled “theatre of varieties”.

This ultra exclusive, den of chic iniquity is shrouded in secrecy - with a strictly enforced no camera no cell phone policy - which has only poured oil on the waters of controversy and mystery since it opened in 2007. The sense of the guiltless indulgence of impulse in gilded privacy has also drawn an ever-flowing stream of celebrities and the cream of society nightlife.
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Café de l´Horloge | Modern French Restaurant, 7e Arrondissement - Paris

Musée d´Orsay´s new restaurant designed by Fernando and Humberto Campana ,with Edra elements! 

Mi Piaci 24kt Gold Clutch | Presentation - New York

At the Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Spring 2012 in New York this month this talisman of the soiree and beauty’s element collided in a breathtaking inverse alchemy. Through a groundbreaking and mind-bending scientific process, modern day fashion magicians - and official sponsors of Fashion Week - Mi Piaci have created something that sounds like it has arrived directly from a storybook. Toasting with champagne, preternatural blonde beauty Caroline Winberg and Mi Piaci’s Gianpaolo Girardello presented the world’s first gold-leather clutch bag at the Lincoln Center this week.

What the supermodel and the Creative Director displayed to a thrilled and expectant audience was neither painted gold nor laminated with gold leaf - the leather literally wore a permanent flexible skin of twenty four carat gold.
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Nicola´s | Temporary Concept Store, TriBeCa - New York

Nicola Formichetti´s Pop Up Shop!  Located in TriBeCa and designed by Gage/Clemenceau Architects.

PUBLIC Chicago | Hotel - Chicago

One of Schrager’s great talents lies in his unerring selection of those with whom he works. His intuitive feel for the industry has drawn to PUBLIC Chicago such stellar talents as Vongerichten and his business partner Phil Suarez, design architect Anda Andrei, premier designers Yabu Pushelberg and Gabellini Sheppard, and hospitality guru Jeffrey Chodorow as a special consultant.

His overarching collector’s eclecticism runs through every element of this vast and yet compellingly intimate project, having commissioned and curated original and unique pieces of art from Brooklyn’s Callidus Guild and Dutch photographer Hendrik Kerstens. The Pump Room itself pays expansive homage to its past, its walls twinkling with a constellation of over three thousand framed stills of the stars that have occupied those famous booths over the years.
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CUT at 45 Park Lane | Modern American Steak Restaurant, Mayfair - London

Wolfgang Puck´s first restaurant in Europe, loacted in the 45 Park Lane by The Dorchester Collection

Maison Ladurée | Sweets (Macarons) and Gourmandises Shop, Upper East Side - New York

Delicious French macaron shop on Madison Avenue!

Hôtel Americano | Chelsea - New York

Great hotel located in the heart of Chelsea by Grupo Habita - Mexican Hotel Group!

noma, Copenhagen

On opening in November 3^rd, 2003, noma’s stated mission was to take “the wild, the inaccessible and the saliently Nordic” ingredients of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden and their associated territories, the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Åland, using “the age-old Nordic principles of conserving foods: pickling, smoking, salting and drying”.

This two-Michelin starred restaurant since 2007 serves forty five covers per day from its haven in Copenhagen’s trendy Christanshavn district - a two hundred and fifty year old warehouse that is part of a complex that once housed the Royal Greenland Trade Enterprise. From this airy, warmly minimalist, Pomeranian pine-floored space parades an exquisite array of Nordic delicacies, where the simplicity with which they are lovingly presented allows the natural-born purity of the flavours to shine through like an arctic sunrise.
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45 Park Lane | Hotel, Mayfair - London

London hotel by The Dorchester Collection.  Great opening today!