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Betsey Johnson, Fashion Designer
The Plaza Hotel in Manhattan opens its Eloise suite today. As befits the hotel-dwelling storybook heroine whose favorite words include "Charge it, please," it won't be cheap. In fact, it will be so pricey you may wish to hide any mention of the place from the kiddies: It starts at $995 a night; to add an adjoining room for grown-ups, the nightly rate begins at $2,045.
A Trove of Antique European Textiles
Those seeking antique textiles from Europe can save the plane fare by visiting the online retailer Textiletrunk.com. The site is run by Wendy Lewis, who lives in Vermont and has spent more than a decade researching textiles at European flea markets and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
The Nantucket Antiques Show Opens on Friday
The 33rd annual Nantucket Antiques Show, July 30 to Aug. 2, is scheduled to have 22 dealers from the United States and Europe, including William Nickerson Antiques, which will show 18th- and 19th-century furniture and Shaia Oriental rugs, and the Silver Fund, a London firm specializing in Georg Jensen silver. Phoebe Booth Antiques, a Manhattan firm that sells English furniture and decorative items, will show a number of pieces, including an Arts and Crafts ebonized fireside chair, circa 1890, at left, that
In Shanghai, in Search of Authenticity
SHANGHAI -- Many Americans who move here end up in high-rise buildings surrounded by other expatriates. But Nichol Bradford wanted a more authentic experience. "I wasn't moving halfway around the world, leaving everything I knew and everyone I loved, to play it safe," said Ms. Bradford, 38, a video game executive who relocated from Los Angeles in 2008. "I certainly wasn't going to live in a building that could have been in any other city."
House Hunting in ... Cornwall, England
A THREE-BEDROOM HOUSE ON AN ISLAND IN CORNWALL
What You Get for ... $580,000
PORT GIBSON, MISS.
Answers to Midsummer Flower Woes
I COULD blame the weather for my garden troubles: the late frost, the drenching spring, the summer heat and drought. Or I could blame the men who trampled the young plants as they installed a fence around the garden's borders. And I could hold the woodchuck, moles and insects accountable for the gnawed roots, broken stems and wasted foliage.
Consumer complaints surged in trying 2009
As the economy headed south last year, consumer complaints about companies and individuals ripping them off headed higher, according to an annual survey of state and local consumer help agencies.
Rules set for reverse-mortgage lenders
Two state agencies have announced new guidelines for reverse-mortgage lenders aimed at protecting older homeowners from getting bad advice or being duped by fraudulent operators.
