Classic Collection  The dècor is nothing to write home about,
but Luciano's sure-handed take on Italian favorites ensures that
you won't care  "When your most prominent architectural feature
is the exit sign, you know you have a problem," my dining
companion observed dryly as we surveyed Luciano's drab interior.
The restaurant is housed in Clayton Plaza, a new high-rise
condominium tower that stands shoulder to shoulder with the
Ritz-Carlton. Its plain-vanilla dining room resembles nothing so
much as an expensive Florida timeshare, right down to the beige
sculptured carpet and rattan café chairs.  Stakeholders in the
Del Pietro's Culinart group faced the same demographic conundrum
tackled by the newly opened restaurant Smith & Slay's: It must
attract the wealthy, mainly older residents of the condominium
without seeming stodgy to the slipstream of blithe young diners
that flows through Clayton every weekend. Slay's cleverly uses a
retro supper-club theme to appeal to both groups. Luciano's, in
a Clintonesque