- Breaking News San Mateo County ninth-graders struggle to stay fit
- Breaking News Food and wine events
- Breaking News Ask Amy: What To Do When the Doctor Isn t in the House
- Breaking News Ed Blonz: Keep your diet normal pre-surgery
Mega-bucks collection, bigger boutique for Chanel jewelry
0 Comments | AFP, November, 2007
PARIS (AFP) — Chanel's essentially up-market jewelry and watch boutique on Paris' home-of-luxury square, the Place Vendome, marks its 10th anniversary with a total makeover almost doubling the floor space, and a new diamond collection for the ultra rich.
Chanel Joaillerie, which has 42 boutiques worldwide, has been refurbished by US architect Peter Marino, maintaining the classical 18th century facade but carving up the interior of Number 18 as a succession of richly-decorated rooms fit for Coco Chanel, director Philippe Mougenot told AFP.
"After 10 years we wanted to modernize," he said, adding that Marino had "wondered what type of interior Miss Chanel would live in today."
The answer was walls covered in hand-made silk, marble fireplaces from the 19th...
- Getting to the root of beautiful hair: shiny, silky hair begins with a healthy scalp - includes list of resources and a recipe for an herbal scalp tonic
- Industry Experts Launch Money Management Resources to Help People Overcome Debt and Learn Proper Money Management Practices
- Portfolio forecasting tools: what you need to know
- Made from scratch: When Honda built a plant in Alabama it also built a workforce-using local workers who had no experience in making cars - Recruitment & Hiring
- Banking technology, technological learning and competition: comparative case studies in Thai banking
- Why fly solo when an executive assistant can accelerate your CLNC® business?
- John Seely Brown Inducted Into 2004 Industry Hall of Fame
- A multi-class SVM classifier utilizing binary decision tree