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The 150-year-old Hotel Schweizerhof in Bern, Switzerland, reopened after a two-year, $50 million renovation. The hotel now has 100 rooms and suites (rates from $500 to $3,000), a new lounge and bar, and its historic restaurant, Jack’s Brasserie, was refurbished and presents new menus weekly. This summer, the hotel will ...

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"Oh, great! Another cupcake shop!" I hear these words as soon as I step onto M Street, the posh, townhouse-lined retail thoroughfare in Washington, D.C., and most lately the raging epicenter of the great American cupcake pandemic.

Brenda Palms Barber, Chicago's Queen of Second Chances, is dedicated to finding jobs for former prison inmates. But when the nonprofit she runs couldn't overcome employers' resistance to bringing on ex-offenders, she spun out a business so she could hire them herself.

The new Champagne bar at London’s May Fair Hotel does not pour bubbly by the glass, serve fizzy cocktails, or, for that matter, even have a bar. Dubbed 150 at the May Fair (www.themayfairhotel.co.uk/150), the intimate sunken lounge within the hotel’s May Fair Bar offers vintage Champagne by the magnum ...

The new Champagne bar at London’s May Fair Hotel does not pour bubbly by the glass, serve fizzy cocktails, or, for that matter, even have a bar.

Titled aristocracy can pick anywhere in the world for their playground, but season after season, you will find them in the same sandboxes.

La Malle, an exquisitely crafted cabinet that will be produced only by special order, is the result of a collaboration of three European design luminaries. Tristan Auer, the man responsible for the interiors of upscale establishments like Paris’ Hotel Jules and Monte-Carlo’s Muse restaurant at the Meridien Hotel, is the ...

A trade show may be the single best place to collect data about your industry—and your rivals. It teems with chatty salesmen, knowledgeable exhibitors, industry insiders, and high-level executive speakers. To John Nolan, a 22-year military intelligence veteran and business consultant, that's a "target-rich environment." Define your goals and do some homework beforehand, and you will come home with a lot more than a stack of business cards

On April 1, the St. Regis will introduce a series of firsts to its latest location in the heart of Bangkok.

Photograph by Dean Kaufman Photograph by Dean Kaufman The landscape architect shares the tools and inspirations that help him breathe life into the artificial. Ken Smith is not one to blend in. The New York -- based designer moves beyond earth and stone in his work, often employing surprising elements such as bright synthetic flowers and plastic rocks.

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