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...almost at once, Servais lost it. While he was crossing the Russian steppes by night, the cello fell off a sled. The horrified traveler immediately retraced his route. And there in the snow he found the instrument - intact, though only just. During the night, wolves had gnawed at the leather straps keeping shut its case, but they had not managed to open it. Roll over Stradivari...
...Another designer whose works are still fashionable is Poul Kjærholm. A version of his PK22 chair - a wedge of black leather supported by chromium-plated legs - resides in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. "I try to show that classics are still going strong and can be combined with very modern lighting," says Kjærholm's son Thomas, who operates a furniture store dedicated to Denmark's classic designs and sells furniture worldwide through his website (www.kjaerholms.dk). "My father has been dead 20 years, but interest in his designs is increasing all the time, even...
...Finally, up on the block in Brunei: Hundreds of "European" sofas made of buttery soft leather, one of which is shaped like the tail end of a Cadillac...
Close to half a million bikers will pour into Sturgis, S. Dak, this week for the annual motorcycle rally, revving their hogs to a deafening pitch and baring their Harley-Davidson tattoos for all to see. But no matter how much leather they don, most will have a hard time looking tough. There will probably be far more aging white-collar baby boomers trying to recapture their imaginary rebellious youth than Hell's Angels flaunting it. The average age of a Harley devotee is now 45, up from 37 a decade ago; 20% are over...
...decorator Nury Feria, the mother of two teenagers, launched her own little crusade within her job as a designer of children's bedrooms. She was finding herself creating rooms that were more like separate apartments. "Large-screen TVs, computers with individual Internet access, refrigerators, sound systems, video-game centers, leather sofas--the only thing missing was a pool," she says. "I realized that as the designer, I'm also supposed to help shape the lifestyle of the kids, and I didn't like a lot of what I was doing in that regard." So she began subtly trying to guide...