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Dealers like Meyers and his partner Evan Snyderman are setting up shop at fairs such as Art Basel in Basel, Switzerland, and its newer outpost in Miami, which two years ago spawned a smaller venue called Design Miami. The major auction houses such as Sotheby's, Christie's and Phillips de Pury are cashing in too, staging big sales of 20th and 21st century design. The Christie's December 2006 sale of 20th century decorative art and design--the largest of the season--raked in $23.7 million, breaking all records...
...LOPEZ DE HEREDIA "We have always been sensitive to beauty," says Maria José López de Heredia, a fourth-generation winemaker, who commissioned British architect Zaha Hadid to design a wine-tasting shop for the winery's HQ in Haro. The result: a mirrored white bottlelike building incorporating a carved bar that Heredia's great-grandfather took to the 1910 Universal Exhibition in Brussels. Says López de Heredia, "My great-grandfather designed a bodega 129 years ago, and half of it is to be built still. Our dream is to finish it." www.lopezdeheredia.com
...bring our families back together," says Mendoza, 40. With help from the Association of Mexican Social Sector Credit Unions (AMUCSS), they pooled $170,000 and set up Xu Nuu Ndavi. One of its first business-starter loans, about $5,000, went to Mendoza's husband Daniel, 45, whose carpentry shop now employs Alberto and two other locals. Their buddy Modesto Ramos, 33, another returned migrant worker, has used his credit to raise and market tomatoes from a 1,200-sq.-ft., irrigation-equipped greenhouse...
...Coming to Dublin was a "crazy thing," said Oska. He had never left Poland before. A trained electrician, he now makes twice as much sweeping up as he did at home plying his trade. It isn't just the guys who put in the hours. Bozena Ukalska, 47, a shop assistant, is one of those who did not choose Britain or Ireland. She settled outside Madrid and works weekends and holidays. But she knows what is required: "You come here to work," Ukalska says...
...Summers recently secured the Wylie Agency in New York to shop the still-unwritten work to publishers. In a lecture last night at Tufts University, he offered what could be a preview of more scathing critiques to come...