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...Commissioners and Titanic Quarter Limited, a waterfront development firm, is to find ways to “recast the image of the city” and “knit the port back to the city center.” Belfast, which was a booming center of shipbuilding and linen production around the turn of the last century, underwent a three-decade period of violence between Protestants and Catholics called the Troubles that ended in 1998. “There wasn’t a lot of investment in their city,” Sommer said, referring to that period...
...BIRD: Australia-based British designer Rachel Bending uses only water-based dyes for Bird, her range of organic cotton and linen fabrics, clothes and housewares. The brand also encourages employees to switch to solar power at home (where many of them work), and participates in schemes to offset its carbon emissions, supporting Australian solar-power and water-saving projects. Bending sees her well-made lines-typically featuring funky, retro-style patterns-as an antidote to the big, cheap fashion chains. "If something feels good, is made well and is good for the planet," she asks, "why would you throw...
...will look as if it were put together by Balinese decorators after a daylong brainstorm with brand managers from the Body Shop. The door opens onto a space of dark wood, coarse textures and handmade soaps. Here's the bathroom with glass walls; there's the bed of Frette linen, beside it an unglazed platter bearing (but of course) a single mangosteen. Yoga mats and aromatherapy oils proliferate in drawers like the Gideon Bibles of yore. And there are miserly arrangements of foliage. Fine hotels used to put out great urns of lilies; boutique hotels adorn your room with...
That ardor has led some devotees to bring GTD home. They use their electronic labelmakers (a must-have GTD tool) to make sense of linen closets, and they encourage their kids to break homework assignments into action steps. The clamor for new applications of GTD has grown so loud that Allen is at work on a third book, due in 2008. He says it will further explore GTD's principles and extend his theory to novel domains, including the home...
...fuse them together." Looking even further ahead, to spring 2008, he says textile mills are using lots of sculpting and etching techniques that create a kind of bas-relief effect on fabric. A traditional, rich fabric like silk shantung, for example, will be woven with very coarse yarn and linen hemp so that the surface looks embroidered, "almost in an arte povera way," Uslenghi says...