Word: auction
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Sitting in his loftlike Manhattan office amid stacks of auction catalogs, art monographs and fashion books, Krakoff points to his Marc Newson Event Horizon desk, one of only eight in the world. (He also has a carbon-fiber-and-corrugated-paper Ron Arad desk.) "It's as much sculpture as it is functional," he says. "These kinds of pieces straddle the line. The distinction between art and design is really blurred...
...charge carries up to five years,” Silverman added. “[The judge] can go up to 10, but that’s highly unlikely.” Purdy’s business is “probably all going to be sold, maybe at an auction or going-out-of-business sale,” Silverman said. “For his house, there may be an auction...he can’t support himself while in jail, and he has two children.” James Poulos, a family friend who had known Purdy...
...While the ground is shifting, many questions remain about greenhouse policies. How ambitious will emission reduction targets be? Is carbon trading a way to shift funds from taxpayers and consumers to renewable-energy entrepreneurs and big business? Will these potentially valuable carbon permits be given away or sold at auction? What will be the balance between gdp growth and the environment? Will politicians continue to undermine an open market? In N.S.W., for example, the state government has granted BlueScope an exemption from its carbon trading scheme or any future carbon tax to help establish a new steel plant at Port...
...Harvard Cancer Society (HCS) hosted its second annual Valentine’s Day Date Auction last Saturday in the Quincy JCR, raising over $1,100 for cancer research. But can money really buy you love? HCS president Natasia A. de Silva ’08 reluctantly says no. “The event is for charity, not for love.” Yet she insists, “I can tell you, there were actual romantic dates last year,” giving hope to the love-sick hopefuls looking for their own cure this coming Valentine?...
...arts are not created equal.These days, if you want to be a successful artist, chances are you’ll want to be a visual artist and not a poet. If you happen to make it big as a painter, you might just auction off something for half a million at Sotheby’s or Christie’s. Making it big as a poet means you might sell about 50,000 copies. “And let’s assume the writer makes a dollar a book,” adds Emily K. Vasiliauskas...