Virtuoso Life - September/October 2008 - (Page 25) LUXE REPORT « DESTINATIONS, TRENDS, CULTURE, AND STYLE » Flower power, Dale Chihuly style. BON VOYAGE, 32 SUITE TALK, 34 CITY TO GO, 38 VANITY CASE, 40 Plane perspective: Heathrow, less congestion. Teresa Nouri rishel RHODE SCHOLAR Rhode Island School of Design alum Dale Chihuly – class of ’68 – returns to the Providence campus when the school’s newly expanded museum opens on September 27. An exhibit of his whimsical glasswork will inaugurate the Chace Center, a five-story glass-and-brick addendum by acclaimed Spanish architect José Rafael Moneo. The new building adds 10,000 square feet of exhibition space and essentially introduces the museum to the city by reorienting the front door to face downtown’s Providence River. The Chihuly exhibit runs through January 4, 2009. www.risd.edu/museum.cfm BY ELAINE GLUSAC SEPTEMBER | OCTOBER 2008 25 http://www.risd.edu/museum.cfm
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