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"Shanghai's St. Regis\nTheatrically Grand and Thoroughly Gracious\nNew York architect K. Jeffries Sydness created the innovative tower of the St. Regis Shanghai hotel, in the heart of the Chinese port city's new financial district.\nIn the lobby, an elaborate alabaster light fixture echoes the tobacco-leaf pattern of the inlaid marble floor. The staircase leads to the lobby bar.\nThe Imperial Suite's double-height living room is \"spacious and elegant,\" says chief designer Mathew Lui, of Hirsch Bedner Associates' Hong Kong office. The sofas are covered in a Donghia mohair; the lounge chairs, foreground, in Edelman leather. Jim Thompson drapery silk. McGuire lamps.\nSydness designed the stainless-steel grid with glass insets that punctuates the ceiling of the pool area and health club. \"It mirrors the mosaic in the pool,\" says Lui.\n\"For the Imperial Suite's master bedroom, we used the same red accents and gold tones found in the lobby,\" says Lui.\u00E2&#128;&#136;\"In China red and gold is thought to be the most auspicious color combination.\" The four-poster bed has a headboard upholstered in Edelman leather; Donghia silks cover the bolsters."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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