Virtuoso Life - March/April 2008 - (Page 37) GRAND CROSSINGS VENETIAN GLASS Having designed a footbridge outside the landmark Guggenheim Bilbao and another that acts as a sundial in Redding, California, Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava has built his latest span in the city most famed for them: Venice. Only the fourth bridge across the Grand Canal, the 308-foot steel and glass Quarto Ponte links the railway station and the vaporetto launch on the opposite bank. PHOTO SHOP Vanity Fanfare Artistic portraiture meets the cult of celebrity in the pages of Vanity Fair. Now the National Portrait Gallery in London showcases 150 classic images from the magazine by pioneers including Edward Steichen and contemporaries such as Mario Testino. The exhibit, Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913-2008, runs through May 26 and features subjects ranging from Claude Monet to Keira Knightley. www.npg.org.uk Jean Harlow bears it for Vanity Fair. Sushi Samba’s cocktail flight. TASTEMAKERS Taking Flight (JEAN HARLOW) EstAtE Of GEORGE HuRRELL / CONdE NAst ARCHivE Lufthansa’s new lounge in Munich. Restaurants nationwide are expanding the concept of “flights” – originally a trio of sample wine pours – beyond wine, chocolate, and cheese into narrowing niches. Sushi Samba restaurants in Chicago, Dallas, Miami, New York, and Tel Aviv now offer a trio of libations in cocktail flights. Butter and salt flight at Juicy Wine Company in Chicago feature exotic varieties of the pantry basics, and Mooo, the new steakhouse at XV Beacon hotel in Boston, prepares a flight of side dishes that includes truffled Parmesan fries. www.sushisamba.com, www.juicywine.com, and www.mooorestaurant.com MARCH | APRIL 2008 37 http://www.npg.org.uk http://www.juicywine.com http://www.sushisamba.com http://www.mooorestaurant.com
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