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...classic one--trying to get too big too fast--that would be repeated ad infinitum by the overfunded dotcoms of the new century. The frantic development diluted the appeal of the Peterman brand and layered new costs onto the company. "This business was highly profitable at $48 million [in sales] a year," Peterman says, "but when we started to push beyond that, it wasn't so profitable." The new merchandise required more buyers and stockers, more inventory and more cash tied up in warehouses. "If I had been really smart, I'd have slashed items and overhead and rolled...
...break, he picked up a light filter and began scrunching the plastic to make various shapes. Intrigued, Salto realized the filter could be curved in two directions at once. After three months experimentation with wood in a workshop, the plastic filter inspired the Runner chair, a wood and steel classic that is already a best seller...
...Incredible as it may seem, many of the classic designs from the 1930s, '40s and '50s are still in production at the Fritz Hansen furniture company (www.fritzhansen.com), based in the Copenhagen suburb of Allerod. The firm manufactures about 200,000 chairs a year from original designs. Klint's original Church chair, designed in 1936, still enjoys robust sales. "We believe in timeless products that will never go out of fashion," says Torben Holme Nielsen, the firm's marketing director. "We don't add on anything that is not necessary. No extras." Not many of these classics will find their...
...Another designer whose works are still fashionable is Poul Kjærholm. A version of his PK22 chair - a wedge of black leather supported by chromium-plated legs - resides in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. "I try to show that classics are still going strong and can be combined with very modern lighting," says Kjærholm's son Thomas, who operates a furniture store dedicated to Denmark's classic designs and sells furniture worldwide through his website (www.kjaerholms.dk). "My father has been dead 20 years, but interest in his designs is increasing all the time, even...
...easy enough to recognize a classic Riedel wineglass: pure and elegant lines, soap-bubble delicacy, flawless clarity, perfect balance in the hand. What's not so easy, for the uninitiated, is to identify the dozens of shapes and sizes that have made Riedel glasses the uncontested favorite of winemakers and wine lovers around the world. Riedel's Sommelier collection, for instance, includes 33 different lead-crystal glasses, each one designed for a specific type of wine or grape variety...