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With the launch of Palladium in Mumbai's Phoenix Mills, luxury retail and hospitality find a new expression.It’s a teaser of what the Shangri-La might be like when it opens a few months later, a foretaste of the 45-storey high world of luxury that the hotel promises, its façade dramatically black and gold, a sky lobby — Mumbai’s first –—located at a height of 500 ft with spectacular views of the Arabian Sea and the race course. Part of the redevelopment of Phoenix Mills, Palladium, its luxury mall — the equivalent of Bangalore’s UB City and Delhi’s DLF Emporio — straddles the first three levels of the Shangri-La in a striking Art-Deco ambience spread across 200,000 sq ft of restaurants, upmarket brand stores, salons and lounges, and it is this that was introduced last week to the city by promoter Atul Ruia.
“It looks like the shopping malls in Dubai,” cooed 19-year-old Pratyusha Shah, having already alerted her friends to its existence in downtown Mumbai. “Palladium,” she said, “is closest to Deira City Centre in Dubai,” tucking her Gucci shades into her Polo backpack — symbols of her frequent trips to the desert outpost. Pointing to the glass-domed atrium clad in smoked mirrors and surrounded by hand-laid Italian marble, onyx and wood paneling, she added, “This matches any international design.”
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