Word: customs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...requires someone with talent and skill. Someone who has coached a high-caliber team before. Perhaps someone who is ready to return to coaching after taking time off to build custom furniture...
...idea is for the product to feel like found objects," says Stephen Brady, senior vice president of design at Williams-Sonoma. "Like you've traveled to Europe and found things in the flea market and brought them home with you." That old-world feeling shows up in everything from custom upholstered down-filled sofas ($3,000) to hand-embroidered Italian linens ($60-$495). Best sellers so far include a crystal-block lamp (about $295) and fringed cashmere throws in colors like cayenne, chocolate and sage (about $295). Customers can also log on to a partial ecatalog and order custom upholstery...
...pieces of furniture--and inadvertently entered one of the fastest-growing markets in the industry: luxury furniture for children's rooms. Now he and his Straight Line Designs team create his Pee-wee's Playhouse--like pieces for prices ranging from $300 to $5,000 and even higher for custom pieces. "It costs a lot to make a carrot with drawers," Beaumont says...
Also doing well with blazers is Thom Browne, 38, the American who launched his label of hand-made suits nearly three years ago. His custom-designed creations are known for their slim trousers and short, fitted jackets, which, he says, look sharp and young. Browne, who wears a suit every day, whatever the weather or occasion, describes his typical client as "the guy who was wearing khakis and polo shirts the past couple years but who understands the quality of hand-made clothing and is willing to spend extra money to get it." (His suits usually start...
DIED. LARRY DESMEDT, 55, biker and custom-motorcycle builder known as Indian Larry who was a legend among biking enthusiasts; of injuries he suffered while performing an impromptu stunt for fans in a parking lot; in Charlotte, N.C. Once a favored subject of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, who admired his "crash and burn" lifestyle, Desmedt won attention for a chopper he built in 1996 and dubbed Grease Monkey...