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I was standing outside One World Trade center, staring up at the night sky and trying to see the top of the tower: At 1,776 feet, it reigns supreme as the tallest building in the western hemisphere. You look up at it and feel impossibly small. Across the street I could see the glowing lights of the Davidoff cigar lounge; its facade part of the stylish hub of luxury shops and office buildings known as Brookfield Place, in the Battery Park City area of downtown Manhattan. | Cigar Aficionado

The Rug Company’s recent move to a building half a block down East 59th Street from its previous Manhattan spot

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Curving pale wooden furnishings and soft pink, green and blue tones decorate this tea shop in New York City by local firm New Practice Studio.

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Image 3 of 30 from gallery of The Focal Length / RENESA Architecture Design Interiors Studio. Photograph by Suryan//Dang

Completed in 2011 in Forte dei Marmi, Italy. In occasion of the opening of the new flagship store in Versilia, Italy, Philipp Plein chose to collaborate for the first time with AquiliAlberg, a...

There's an angelic new coffee bar in N1. Saintly, one might even say. I read about Saint Espresso, which opened a few weeks ago on Pentonville Road near Angel Tube, in Caffeine Magazine when I was at The Gentlemen Baristas last week and promptly forgot its name but not its address. Luckily, it is only a ten-minute walk up the hill from my office, so I figured that even if I had imagined the whole thing, I wasn't going too far out of my way. More luckily still, Saint Espresso was indeed there…

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