Word: couturiere
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Today, Grasse is to fragrance what Wall Street is to finance. It is home to the world's top perfume houses, and almost any designer scent you care to name has been wholly or partly developed here?including the aforementioned Chanel No. 5 (created in 1921 by Ernest Beaux, and...
For Eddy N. Couturier, who founded Northeast Building Movers in 1983, this was a typical day’s work.
Couturier has moved between 1,000 and 1,500 buildings over the course of his career. A recent job involved raising a 400-ton brick building up one floor to make room for a ground-level shopping center.
Couturier, clad in jeans, workboots, and a white hardhat, could be seen underneath Palfrey House directing his team, which skillfully engineered each turn.
Over the last 25 years, Couturier reckons, he has moved between 1,000 and 1,500 structures.