May 2003 -
Leading Estates of the World, by Pamela Kelsey
AS THE GATES OPEN in Holmby Hills, a solitary vision of fairy tale splendor greets you. Seldom in real life does one encounter such beauty, such pure perfection—even in the glamour capital of conspicuous consumption surrounding Rodeo Drive. When renowned architect Richard Landry was commissioned by the owners—along with Hadid Development Group, builder of 15 Ritz-Carlton Hotels
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Yolanda Hadid is not a design professional, but she is no stranger to the world of interiors. Her husband, Mohamed Hadid, has developed more than 15 Ritz-Carlton hotels with his company Hadid Development, and the couple travels regularly to Europe to shop for antiques and accessories...
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One of Hollywood's scariest Internet monsters, whose online streams of TV shows were killed off by an angry mob of lawsuits, has been resuscitated, this time as a would-be ally set to resume operations this weekend...
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The sun first peeks over the Continental Divide just after six on New Years Day, and particularly at this hour, it seems there could be no more beautiful place on earth than the Roaring Fork Valley—red-tinged clay, bright white snow and a pure blue in the sky that only high altitudes can produce. Below, the narrow streets of Aspen, Colorado are empty, yielding no signs of the previous night's parties. Instead of whoops of frivolity there is only the squawking of jays and nutcrackers...
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A real estate deveoper based in Washington, Mohamed Hadid traces his roots to Daher al-Omar Alziadani, The Bedouin tribesman who used a scimitar to carve Palestine--however briefly--from the Ottoman Empire in the 18th century. Born in Nazareth during the 1948 cold war, Hadid grew up in Damascus and Beirut, where his father...
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March 1988 -
Regardies: The Business of Wadhington, by Harry Jaffe
THE FIRST TIME Mohamed Anwar Hadid set foot in Aspen, he felt almost weightless. He stepped out of a Citation jet, took a deep breath of the crisp mountain air, and marveled at the wonders that surrounded him: the big sky, the jagged peaks, the emerald grass. A Palestinian who'd been exiled from his homeland at birth, he was a Washington developer on the rise. Now he was in America's most posh mountain playground, and he liked what he saw.
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