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Yountville is a lovely town tucked among the rolling landscapes of Napa Valley. This town is a regional center of fine dining, with such well-regarded restaurants as the French Laundry, Bouchon and Redd. The high standard there did not scared the owners of Hotel Luca, Paul and Cassandra Hazen from opening it, in December 2006. The hotel has 20 guest rooms huddled around a courtyard made of 300-year-old Florentine tiles, a stone fountain, and a roof made of 200-year-old shingles from Lucca, Italy, and all of these makes you feel as if it is plucked from the Tuscan countryside.

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Ubuntu is a modern vegetarian restaurant located in downtown Napa, California. It covers a two-story volume in a 19th century stone structure. Owned by Jeremy Fox, Ubuntu restaurant is Napa’s only vegetable restaurant. It offers delectable Organic cuisine created with ingredients from local farmers.

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Viridian Artists Inc. is an art gallery, situated in New York City in the esteemed Chelsea region of Manhattan, home to some of New York’s finest and most honored art galleries. Viridian recently celebrated its 40th anniversary and is one of the city’s oldest artist-owned galleries.

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Carter Potter was born in Los Angeles, California, 1961.For nearly fifteen years he has been using film-stock as the base from which he created “Paintings”- in which he stretches the “leaders, feet and spacers” from discarded film around stretchers in horizontal rows, which when assembled read as translucent minimalist canvases.

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The New Art Center,located near Times Square and The New York Times building in NYC,is dedicated to exhibit the work of emerging and mid-career artists. It collaborates with galleries and cultural institutions, including a major art center Espace Beaujon, Paris, France.

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Andrew Bush’s color photographs of people driving their cars are taken in and around LA, where Bush lives. They are straightforward but surprisingly elegant.

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Boxoffice is a New York based art gallery focused on furthering contemporary art from the new American frontier.The artists that are exhibited here are unique and singular in their practice, well educated but at the same time independent of trend and market.

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Located midway between the Napa and Sonoma valleys and only 45 minutes drive of San Francisco, the Carneros Inn is a stunning Napa Valley luxury hotel. It is the ideal location for your next out of town weekend, party, wedding or executive retreat. Nestled among 27 acres of grapevines and designed in stylish, modern interiors, this property provides an intimate atmosphere.

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Rancho Pescadero is a unique accommodation located on 15 beautiful acres in Baja California, Mexico. It is a luxury boutique resort offers only twelve suites. The spacious suites are outfitted in a minimalist Mexican style and contain a canopied bed, soft colors, and floor-to-ceiling terrace and a patio living room with stunning oceans views. There is an outside seating for views of the seasonal migrating Pacific Grey Whales just off shore.

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This posh resort is located on 12 acres of white sand beach in Los Cabos, Baja California, Mexico. Offers lavish services, comfortable accommodations and panoramic views of the Pacific, Cabo Azul is one of the most exclusive new properties in all of Los Cabos.

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