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...also didn't have much interest in working under other name architects. After stints with Richard Rogers and then Norman Foster, both vanguard figures of British high tech, he decided to break out on his own. In 1989, Amanda Levete came on board as partner. Today the firm employs 30 people. In recent years it has produced new stores for Comme des Garçons in Paris, New York City and Tokyo, tableware and other design items for Alessi and Moser and a lamp for Fontana Arte. But it was that Selfridges department store, one of the most talked-about...
...source of ideas for home design. But his architectural thinking is resolutely outside the box. As he once remarked, "There is nothing to say that every house has to have eight corners." There don't appear to be any at all in the country house in Wales that his firm designed for a Labour Member of Parliament. On its seaward-facing side, it consists of just an elliptical wall of floor-to-ceiling windows that are wedged directly into the land like the filling in a pita pocket. There are also no detectable corners in that snaking brontosaurus house...
...Gournay, the wallpaper-and-fabric firm, was the inspiration behind Posey Shanghai, Molly Larkin's new line of beautifully hand-painted silk silhouettes. Larkin, a De Gournay client, asked the firm to paint fabrics like the Zinfandel Magnolia, above, taken from a tree in Larkin's Napa Valley garden. At Stanley Korshak, Dallas...
...Britney's not the first young, single mother to have troubles, to feel stress," says Ross Johnson, of the public relations firm Sitrick and Co. She may be the first to have her stress captured in this level of excruciating detail by a zoom lens, however. "Taking a picture of a star in rehab used to be verboten," says Johnson. "When I saw a photo of her at [Malibu, Calif. rehab facility] Promises, I was shocked. This is new territory...
...Richie Rich types just looking for a thrill ride. Instead, I found a group of hardy pioneers, millionaires sure, but idealists who dreamed as kids of going into space. Mark, for instance, grew up during the Apollo years, but got rich from an IPO of his software-mapping firm. Now he's back to his first love. "It's not the thrill of acceleration for me," he says. "It's the experience of looking down to see the Earth, the experience of zero gravity. It would be crazy...