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The Ritz-Carlton Magazine, Summer 2008

The Ritz-Carlton Magazine, Summer 2008 The Ritz-Carlton is more than just a hotel. To the ladies and gentlemen who frequent the company's properties worldwide, it's a lifestyle — a desire to experience the best life has to offer, whether at home or while traveling.

To meet this expectation, The Ritz-Carlton magazine caters to its readers with compelling articles on the people, places, products and pastimes that make the modern world an interesting place to be. Like The Ritz-Carlton brand itself, the magazine mixes elegance and sophistication with a sense of energy and service that's unmatched.

The Ritz-Carlton magazine's modern design differentiates it from its competitors while also communicating the hotel company's No. 1 position in the marketplace. Not only will our magazine build and strengthen the relationship between The Ritz-Carlton and its guests, it will support and enhance the positioning of the brands within its pages.

Created around articles that are timely and relevant, The Ritz-Carlton magazine takes a fresh, original approach to imagery and typography with a color palette that makes reading each page a pleasure. Indeed, our magazine resonates deeply with discriminating readers — and its presence is undeniable. Guests are drawn to The Ritz-Carlton magazine and, in turn, to your advertisements. Without a doubt, products and services featured in The Ritz-Carlton magazine get noticed.

Essentials

The Ritz-Carlton magazine is the largest in-room publication in the Five-Star Deluxe category
The Ritz-Carlton is among the top five hotels in brand loyalty, as ranked by Business 2.0
Published jointly by McMurry (No. 1 custom publisher in the U.S.) and Reader's Digest (most successful magazine in publishing history reaching 100 million readers around the world each month)

Recognition

2007, The Luxury Institute in its Annual Survey of Affluent Consumers awarded The Ritz-Carlton with the Number One Rating for "Best Customer Experience"
Two-time winner of most prestigious luxury brand hotel per the Luxury Brand Status Index survey of Luxury Hotels from a sample of more than 500 households of America's wealthiest
Two-time winner of the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award, an honor received by only one other American company
Recipient of Folio's prestigious Gold Ozzie for "Best Custom Publishing Magazine Redesign", 2007 Maggie Awards "Best Color Editorial Feature", and 13 awards in 2007 and 2006 for outstanding design and editorial
J.D. Powers ranked The Ritz-Carlton highest in guest satisfaction in the luxury market in 2007

Distribution

More than 65 Ritz-Carlton properties worldwide
A bonus distribution to all The Ritz-Carlton Clubs and Ritz-Carlton Residences
Available for sale at all Ritz-Carlton boutiques and gift shops

Offering

Award-winning design and editorial
Local and global advertising opportunities

(From The Ritz-Carlton Magazine Media Kit)

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In this month's magazine:

A World of Art
Expressions of beauty take many forms. From mosaics and palaces to galleries and gardens, a global tour reveals distinctive gems that define some of the world’s leading cities.

london: an explosion of color

Preparing for an arts sortie around the world requires rigorous training, so I start preparations in my hometown, London. My first destination has to be Tate Modern. Since opening in 2000, this museum has become the first port of call on any London visitor’s agenda (and only a short trip from The Ritz London at 150 Piccadilly); it only takes a walk through the lofty spaces of the Turbine Hall to understand why. Giles Gilbert Scott’s building was already a landmark, occupying this prime site on the Thames, but it was the conversion into a worldclass museum by Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron that launched this team into the public consciousness.

In the spirit of discovery, I hunt out the other Herzog & de Meuron building in London, the Laban Centre for Contemporary Dance, recipient in 2003 of the prestigious Stirling Prize, awarded by the Royal Institute of British Architects. It is farther down the river at the U-bend of the Thames in Deptford, an area once home to a royal dockyard and now a magnet for a new wave of artists in search of affordable studios.

Deptford is next door to the leafy Greenwich, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997. Here is a 200-acre park in which you can visit the Maritime Museum and The Queen’s House. Designed by Inigo Jones, this small architectural gem pays homage to Jones’ grand tour of Renaissance Italy. It contains both a symmetrical 40-foot great hall, a perfectly shaped cube with an intricate geometric black-and-white marble floor, and the tulip staircase, the first self-supporting spiral stairway in England. You can try to catch a glimpse of the resident ghost, purported to be a woman dressed in gray with crinoline petticoats who silently glides up the stairs and disappears through walls.

Berlin: new views of the city

A tour of Berlin’s burgeoning arts scene inevitably confronts a visitor with the combination of Germany’s troubled history and rich artistic tradition. Until recently there were only a few contemporary galleries here, but the relatively low rents have attracted artists and galleries, many of them relocating from the more traditional German art capitals of Munich and Cologne.

My guide, artist Norbert Bisky, originally from East Germany, takes me to the top of the landmark Fernsehturm tower, where you can drink in extraordinary views. An alternate view to experience the city’s impressive expanse starts with a spacious ride up the escalator at Sir Norman Foster’s Reichstag, now the architectural symbol of the reunified city.

The Mitte, particularly around the Auguststrasse, has traditionally been the city’s center for contemporary art, although many of the new galleries, including Galerie Max Hetzler, have moved into Zimmerstrasse farther south.

The Kunstwerke Gallery, a nonprofit space with a lovely courtyard café, is a good place to start a walking tour. Pick up one of the many free gallery guides before ranging around the commercial galleries, which are often set in small courtyards and down narrow passages. Contemporary Fine Arts and Neugerriemschneider are two of the more established galleries and always have interesting shows.

For more classic arts, visit the New National Museum and its 20th Century European arts and the Kulturforum where the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra is conducted by Sir Simon Rattle. Both are only short walks from The Ritz-Carlton, Berlin.

For more information on museums, upcoming exhibitions and other artful things to do in the city, contact the concierge at The Ritz-Carlton, Berlin, Potsdamer Platz 3. ...

Catch it While You Can
From blockbuster retrospectives to hot-ticket performances and shows, don’t miss your chance to see these special events before they disappear.
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Sips All Bottled Up
Wine and spirits makers have long known the value of an elegant bottle and an artful label. Today, though, design is both an industry and an art. Whether elaborate, classical or minimal, labels play a key role in our decision to reach for a bottle.

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Puttin' on the ritz is second nature to this hotelier. The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company operates 70 luxury hotels in more than 20 countries offering premium accommodations and amenities for both business and leisure travelers. Its hotels can be found in prime destinations and are consistently rated among the best in the world.

A subsidiary of hotel giant Marriott International, the company also manages four Ritz-Carlton Club time-share properties.

Ritz-Carlton was established in 1983 when real estate mogul and former CEO William Johnson acquired the rights to the name made famous by Swiss hotelier César Ritz. (Google Finance)

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