LUXE City Guides - Capital Chic

NEW YORK, May 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Vanity Fair calls them "Delightful, de-lovely and de-luxe," The Times in London calls them "a mini marvel that fits in your handbag" and voted them in their choice of the top five travel guides, and now there are six new titles for the smart, sophisticated and busy traveler to choose from.

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    LUXE Chicago, LUXE Los Angeles, LUXE Florence                   US$ 9 each

Want to sip sunset cocktails from a breathtaking perch high above Chicago, or hear outstanding jazz in a former gangster's speakeasy? Long to find the best vintage fashion in LA? Want to lose the hoi-polloi and discover Florence's lesser known Renaissance marvels? Put a little LUXE in your life.

    LUXE London, LUXE Berlin, LUXE Barcelona                     US$ 9.99 each

Want to find the best steak and kidney pie, or Michelin-starred foaming flair in London? Care to sample cutting-edge Catalan cuisine or discover the scorching Berlin art scene? Well, now you can with LUXE.

Heaving with entries featured in no other guides and famed for eschewing the usual padding of pointless photographs and yawny descriptions, LUXE City Guides cut to the jugular, listing hundreds of destinations in the distinctive, hyper-opinionated LUXE style of short, sharp and to-the-point reviews. Designed to fit in a purse or pocket without ever making you look like a tourist, they're small in size but long in savvy and sass.

The discreet and consummately elegant LUXE City Guides are carefully compiled and researched by a city resident editor from the favorite places of over 25 city residents specially selected for their style, knowledge and expertise, and as if that weren't enough, each city is then visited by in-house LUXE editors to ensure that LUXE's consistently high standard is maintained throughout the series. LUXE City Guides deliver not only the finest and most happening hotels, restaurants, clubs, bars and spas, but unique services, artisanal crafts, bespoke shops and city secrets that most visitors would simply never find. And you can't shake a stick at that!

LUXE. Smart stuff for busy people.

Purchase from the 28 cities in the LUXE range online or find a retailer near you at www.luxecityguides.com, including select Borders stores.