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Ooh la la! Top 10 fashion hotels

The clothes, the glamour, the shows are all heavily covered in the media, but where does a fashionista stay when visiting New York, London, Milan and Paris for fashion week?

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Luxury hotel for dogs in Paris gets tails wagging

Heated pools, massage salons and a-la-carte menus are de rigueur at luxury hotels across the world, but in one exclusive Paris establishment, the difference is the guests: they have four legs.

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Car of the Year 2011: No. 7 Maserati GranTurismo Convertible

No SubstituteThe GranTurismo just might erase Maserati’s undeserved image of being the Italian car to buy if you cannot afford a Ferrari. Yes, Maserati was once a division of Ferrari, the two companies still are located in the same neighborhood, and all Maseratis are powered by Ferrari-sourced engines. However, Maserati ...

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Car of the Year 2011: No. 8 Audi A8L

Laudable DesignsAsk any auto designer—off the record and after a couple of drinks—which marques he or she most admires and chances are Audi will be mentioned. Audi has long been regarded as a designer’s car, in the best sense of the term. Across the model line the exterior and interior ...

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Car of the Year 2011: No. 9 Aston Martin Rapide

Hustle and FlowThe success of Aston Martin’s sedan-cum-coupe is a matter of seduction by architecture. Its design flows so proportionately that one barely notices the two extra doors.

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Car of the Year 2011: No. 10 BMW Alpina B7

Higher GroundWhile BMW cognoscenti worship at the Alpina altar, the luxury-sedan rank and file remain oblivious to Wunderautos wrought by BMW’s partner—which is as it should be, because there are not enough B7s to go around. The engineers and craftsmen at Alpina have taken everything good about the BMW 750 ...

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FrontRunners: From the Robb Cellar

After the watershed Paris tasting organized by wine merchant Steven Spurrier in 1976, no development has done more to raise the esteem of the world’s leading critics for the wines of Napa Valley than the partnership formed in 1978 between Baron Philippe de Rothschild, owner of Ch

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Tour’s Florida swing perfect for amateur golfers

Not only is this the time of year when the eyes of the sports world really begin to follow pro golf, these four weeks are also the most publicly accessible stretch of courses the PGA Tour plays all year long.

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Tour’s Florida swing perfect for amateur golfers

Not only is this the time of year when the eyes of the sports world really begin to follow pro golf, these four weeks are also the most publicly accessible stretch of courses the PGA Tour plays all year long.

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FrontRunners: Cut and Paste

Florence-based artist Jens Praet has added five pieces to Shredded (www.jenspraet.com), his limited-edition collection of furniture rendered from the pages of magazines. Praet mixes the shredded pages with resin and then molds the concoction into forms that are surprisingly strong once they dry. The artist used issues of Robb Report ...

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Car of the Year: Emotion in Motion

For much of the magazine’s 35-year history, the Robb Report Car of the Year competition has furnished four-wheeled fodder for an audience interested in unique motoring experiences. Since the 2003 contest, however, our readers have been, as it were, in the driver’s seat. Prior to that time, our team of ...

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