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All About Andre Balazs in 'Arkitip'

It has arrived: the 50th issue of Arkitip, which is both focused on hotelier André Balazs and designed by him, dropped into our mailbox yesterday. Each magazine includes a "surface mat" featuring a design of one of André's properties, and aside from a few articles at the end, André was in control of the content of the entire edition.

So what did we learn about the hot hotelier? That his promised wine, a rosé produced near his Sunset Beach Hotel on Shelter Island, is ready for mass consumption, and that he collects vintage nude photographs. Also of note is his acquisition of Jean Prouvé's La Maison Tropicale, a modular design by the famous architect which Balazs has currently lent to be on exhibition outside of the Tate Modern in London.

We wish we could have scanned some of the magazine for you, but it is almost not worth it; after a few vaguely presidential images of André in his office, the rest of the magazine is almost solely official photos of his properties and the products available therein. Now we're stuck with four copies, which is probably what we deserve for semi-stalking "One of the Most Stylish Men in America".

[Images: Arkitip]

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Eva Longoria Plays Tug-Of-War At Chateau Marmont

Where: 8221 Sunset Boulevard [map], Hollywood, CA, United States, 90046

We hear Eva Longoria threw quite the tantrum at Chateau Marmont the other night. It all went down when Longoria ran into Victoria Beckham and started pulling up chairs for her and her posse to sit with Posh.

The LA hotel, always the center of celebrity meltdowns and public displays of egomania, seems to disdain the free publicity it gets from its visitors. It kicked Lindsay Lohan out after she lived there for a year, banned Britney Spears for rubbing a plate of food in her own face, and sometimes denies Ms. Beckham for tipping off the paparazzi about her dinner plans.

This time, the hostess had had enough. She told Eva, "You cannot bring any more chairs over here. This is a dining room." When Eva didn't listen, she and the head server got into a pulling match over the chairs. The server won.

[Photo: People]

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