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...Sleeping Beauty's magic for his own domain. So he commissioned Messel to design a suite, a penthouse, a pavilion and a roof terrace with fountain for his luxury London hotel the Dorchester. The result, which opened in 1953 and has been restored but never altered, is truly fit for a princess. The entire scheme is an essay in riotous cod rococo: swagged chintz, contorted gilt (even the bathroom fittings are gold-plated) and vibrant color (the bedroom juxtaposes canary yellow with magenta). The penthouse walls are decorated with gesso oak branches mounted on mirror to evoke the tangled briars...
...better for specialty remodelers, who can target deep-pocketed consumers like Mike Engel of Bend, Ore. When he decided to fix up his three-car garage, he characterized it as a "dumping ground and completely dysfunctional." So extreme was the clutter that of his three vehicles, he could fit only the Porsche inside. Engel contacted Mike Maxwell, owner of Garage Improvement, a Garage Envy dealer in Oregon, who completed the makeover this July for $15,500. Maxwell added stain-resistant rubber flooring, cabinetry, recessed lighting and a hot-and-cold water faucet so Engel could wash his cars...
Sure, they can fit in your jeans pocket and still take great pictures, but what have compact digital cameras done for you lately? Three, endowed with unusual powers, stand out from among the growing pack of copycats...
TerraCycle staff members also must deal with components that differ slightly from those in the last batch--worm excrement with nitrate levels a touch lower than last month's, nozzles that don't fit properly in the boxes being shipped to stores. "There tends to be a lot of variability, so you have to be vigilant about quality control," says Cotton. The company's vice president of R&D, Bill Gillum, rolls his eyes. "Variability is a good word for it," he says. Fixing the never ending problems takes ingenuity and typically a lot of labor. But that...
...mind making remarks on X,' and all of a sudden it's there. And in the meantime you've agreed to something the day before or the day after, and they're in different places. I'm on several boards, and so it's difficult to fit...