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While licensees fabricate most of Lauren's products, the designer manufactures his pricey Polo line of menswear (annual sales: $420 million) at his own factory, a rehabilitated brick mill in Lawrence, Mass., that he bought in 1978. Reason: tailored menswear is the type of clothing Lauren knows best. By making those garments himself he can collect a larger profit margin and keep an even closer watch on quality. At the Polo plant, some 225 workers turn out 350 jackets and suits a day. Lauren's best Italian-wool suits ($1,200) are handmade by 25 highly skilled tailors, usually immigrants...
...time, I think, that he began his remarkably long career as an embezzler." The failed playwright remembers his debut: "After the first act I wanted very much to leave." A colleague gives him "the job of editing a disastrous manuscript he had just received from one of his red-brick university dons. The subject of the book was Clear Thinking...
Still, employees at Southern's handsome brick headquarters in downtown San Francisco were hardly despondent. The two companies had planned to merge their headquarters in Chicago and lay off most of Southern's corporate staff...
...century Netherlands that work space first began to be completely separated from living space. This naturally led to a growing sense of privacy and domesticity, still nearly unknown in the swarming feudal manors of France or England. Since land was scarce, the prosperous Dutch burghers built small and narrow brick row houses, with separate rooms and considerable decoration. Since space was limited, they invented the double-hung window to replace what are now called French windows. The Dutch also believed strongly in schooling and kept their older children at home, whereas French and English children were ordinarily sent...
British and other merchants visited the Netherlands, admired what they saw and took home not only a taste for brick row houses with double-hung windows but such Dutch discoveries as Chinese tea and Oriental carpets. In Georgian England of the following century, the practical was combined with the beautiful. Lo, the great furniture makers: Sheraton, Chippendale, Hepplewhite. "Ah! there is nothing like staying at home for real comfort," says a character in Jane Austen's Emma...