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Raise the bar; Triple-milled in Provence or handcrafted in Florence, old-fashioned soaps bring panache to the powder room.(Brief article)
Byline: Catherine Piercy
What is elegance? Soap and water!" said Cecil Beaton. Wrapped like presents in old-fashioned paper, tucked inside elaborate boxes, and emitting the most delicious scents, the best new bars are as sophisticated and meticulously turned out as the photographer's favorite society girls. And with their vintage charm, these pretty packages offer a natural solution to one of summer's most perplexing dilemmas: What to give the weekend hostess who has everything?
"There isn't one woman who doesn't enjoy a wonderful soap in her powder room," says Marjorie Gubelmann Raein, who often entertains friends at her homes in New York and Palm Beach, and is the co-owner of Vie Luxe, a line of decadent bath and body products.
"A set of nice soaps is personal. Like a favorite ...
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- Newspaper article from: Newsday (Melville, NY) June 22, 2007 700+ words
...Cutchogue, an agent sent to Palm Beach in January to tour the...how they think," said Palm Beach agent Dana Koch as he...that had an impressive powder room with thousands of assorted...three-day affair with Palm Beach agents carries a price...
- C.Z. Guest, Slatkin & Co., and Neiman Marcus Join Forces for a Meeting of the...
- Press release article from: Business Wire November 7, 2002 700+ words
...Downing to create the most luxe powder room experience in the city for the...Z. Guest meets Doris Day in Palm Beach circa 1960 (yes, that means a...combine to create a trip to the powder room one won't soon forget...
- Royal palm: heading to Palm Beach for some R&R? Don't forget the heady shopping...
- Magazine article from: House Beautiful Spear, Alison March 1, 2003 700+ words
...beautiful houses in America, Palm Beach is necessarily serious...Dixie Highway in West Palm Beach, aims to please, with...president of the West Palm Beach Antique Row Association...hanging fixture in a small powder room, a Don Nice sneaker...
- Small luxuries: ideas from the winners of our powder room contest.
- Magazine article from: Sunset Whiteley, Peter O. June 1, 2002 700+ words
...rooms a rich yet soothing appearance. A powder room's small size allows you to have some...designer Sara Goodman papered a small powder room with more than 1,000 individually...objects. Sinks as stars Functionally, a powder room needs only a toilet, a sink, and minimal...
- Powder room power.(designing powder room)(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Professional Builder (1993) Stromberg, Meghan June 1, 2004 700+ words
...the smallest rooms in the home--the powder room--packs a lot of punch these days...Partnership in Milwaukee, Wis., designs the powder room as a "jewel box" in its custom homes...to be more adventurous with the guest powder room," says Ruvin, who is also a home...
- Take a Walk on the Feminine Side With One-Of-A-Kind 'Pimped Out Powder Room'.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire January 22, 2008 700+ words
...AQTU005) By way of its Pimped out Powder Room, Roto-Rooter will offer one lucky...female-inspired refuge." Pimped out Powder Room Since women often sneak to the bathroom...were incorporated into the Pimped out Powder Room to ensure all time spent there is pleasant...
- Turn Your Powder Room Into Tiny Gem
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times MOLLY MILLIGAN March 24, 1996 700+ words
Q. Our drab powder room can be seen from the kitchen, family...This is because many builders put the powder room where it is convenient to other plumbing...leftover square foot or two. Keep your powder room door closed at all times. This way...
- Reflections On A Powder-Room Epiphany.
- Newspaper article from: Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT) September 14, 2007 700+ words
...years to get around to remodeling the powder room. But it did. Some other project always...mildly, though, I couldn't stand that powder room. The counter color was reminiscent...goes by. At long last I tackle the powder room. But it's still a slow-mo process...
