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...restaurants around the world. Factories in China are capable of producing furniture for those kinds of venues, he says, but they need supervision. "Today I still have to specify what kind of glue, how many screws, what percentage of the wood's pores should be exposed by the lacquer," he says. But in the future, he predicts, China will not only nail the details on imported designs but also start to dream up its own. "Until a few years ago, China produced only 1,000 product designers a year," he says. "Now it's producing tens of thousands. This...
...architect Frank Gehry and Swiss furniture-design firm Vitra have teamed up to reissue Gehry's iconic 1972 Easy Edges collection of cardboard furniture. Included in the group are the Wiggle Side Chair and Low Table Set, above, both of which will be available in white, fluorescent green, orange lacquer and the original cardboard. Gehry has also added a new piece: Block, a solid cube of cardboard with colorfully painted sides. The collection will be available exclusively at Vitra's New York City and San Francisco stores. Prices range from...
...draw customers from competitors like Sephora and the Nordstrom cosmetics counter. "Segmentation unlocks growth potential," says Fiske. The underlying idea at all the stores is to stock products that don't just make you feel nice (Cucumber Melon bubble bath) but also make you look better (Goldie nail lacquer)--and in the process create a new sort of one-stop shop with a consumer-friendly atmosphere. "What they have recognized," says Donald Trott, specialty-retail analyst at stock-research outfit Jefferies & Co., "is that they have to take it out of the arena of competing with Procter & Gamble...
MOST INNOVATIVE RESTAURANT CONCEPT At Primi in West Los Angeles, the menu consists of primi piatti, first dishes that are appetizer-size portions of new-wave Italian specialties. In this sparkling café, with its black lacquer and mirror trim, a meal may include samplings of tiny clams in a garlicky tomato broth, tagliatelle in a meat and porcini sauce, chunks of snowy fish steamed with vegetables, duck breast rolled around a pureed olive "caviar." It is in relaxed contrast to Owner Piero Selvaggio's pricey, well-established Valentino...
...tail of a catfish. In making them, their armorers came up with shapes so breathtakingly elegant in their severe reduction of nature that they would have no Western parallel until Brancusi. The most extreme are probably those meant to suggest, in a notched and folded cliff of black lacquer rising from the brow, a landscape, specifically Ichi-no-tani Canyon, the site of a famous battle in the 12th century. And there are helmets whose fusion of unstated ferocity and formal elegance seems to epitomize the nature of Zen warriorhood. One, a 16th century filigree of gilded leather...