Virtuoso Life - November/December 2007 - (Page 25) Live large: Vivienne Westwood platforms. BIG DEBUT Step It Up The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, accessorizes the cultural season with two style-centric exhibitions. Walk This Way, running through March 23, 2008, pairs historic and modern footwear with related paintings or objects – sixteenthcentury Venetian platform shoes, designed to keep women above high water, matched with a Canaletto painting of San Marco that depicts footwear, for instance, and eighteenthcentury gilt furniture paired with elaborately carved heels by Miu Miu. Putting zing in bling, Jewelry by Artists: The Daphne Farago Collection (through March 5) gathers 150 pieces of statement jewelry created by the likes of Alexander Calder, Man Ray, and Pablo Picasso. www.mfa.org HOLIDAY SPIRIT POUR BOX The quaff of the season, Hennessy X.O. Cognac, introduces a numbered-edition, crystal-adorned decanter gift box, available throughout the holidays. $200 at www.877spirits.com STYLE SETTERS PREFLIGHT CHECK-IN A pair of European carriers recently debuted lounges with amenities to entice early airport arrivals. Lufthansa opened a firstclass lounge in Munich (with others planned for New York and Paris) featuring a gourmet restaurant, limo service to the plane, a cigar bar, and private Jacuzzi bathtubs. In Tokyo and Johannesburg, Air France opened modern, open-plan lounges with blond wood and bold red accents by acclaimed designer Noé Duchaufour Lawrance. Lufthansa’s new lounge in Munich. NOVEMBER | DECEMBER 2007 25 http://www.877spirits.com http://www.mfa.org
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