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DESIGN SHANGHAI

DESIGN SHANGHAI

Hello , how are y’all …… Hi Shanghai , how are you , its been almost 3 years since our holidays trip, even missing someone h  & if you say about fav destination , for me is Shanghai , Beijing & always be . CH Coming to  DESIGN SHANGHAI , & DESIGN SHENZhEN &  its  thinkerablefabolous -  ALAYME 🫶🏻✨ forever    It is so Fasinating .....:) https://m.weibo.cn/u/1350310131                                                                https://weibo.com/u/1813620273   

BOOK BLOG - A Gentlemen In Moscow

BOOK BLOG - A GENTLEMAN IN MOSCOW Well, I started reading this book at the end of December and since then had explored...Beyond the door of the luxurious Hotel Metropol lies Theater Square and the rest of Moscow, and beyond its city limits the tumultuous landscape of 20th-century Russia. The year 1922 is a good starting point for a Russian epic, but for the purposes of his sly and winning second novel, Amor Towles forgoes descriptions of icy roads and wintry dachas and instead retreats into the warm hotel lobby. As post-revolution scarcity set in, the chef of the upscale Boyarsky restaurant worked magic with cornmeal, cauliflower and cabbage, while the Shalyapin bar offered candlelight and dark corners so Bolshoi dancers could sneak a postperformance drink. In the lobby, politicians whispered and movie starlets swanned across the floor, dragging recalcitrant borzois on their leashes. Towles’s novel spans a number of difficult decades, but no Bolshevik, Stalinist or bu...