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...designing a partnership between consulting firm A.T. KEARNEY and NASA, marketing the space agency's Mission Control techniques as a management tool for the car industry. At 36, the Viennese head of Kearney's global auto division has persuaded two European companies to coordinate planning, from suppliers to showroom, under one roof...
...said the Chinese wouldn't buy machines without test-driving them first. "We're talking about people spending the equivalent of two months' salary on a computer," says Theodore Teo, an industry analyst at Nomura International. "They want to take the whole family to look at it in the showroom...
...surprised if you run into women on the links this summer carrying golf bags covered in 18th century French fabric. Toile (just say twall) is everywhere. "Toile is the new leopard," proclaims Cynthia O'Connor, whose showroom based in New York City sells the $555 Clever Carriage Co. golf bag, which will show up in select Neiman Marcus stores this spring. Even if you don't recognize its name, you know its best-selling patterns: romantic scenes of the French countryside, in black, red or blue on cream-colored cotton. The cozy, Old World designs were once found mainly...
...makeshift nature of Cissokho's showroom may contribute to the bargains he is able to offer, but similar deals can be found elsewhere. An online auction by the Howard S. Rose Gallery in Manhattan featured a number of Noks, including a "fine large-size sculptural terra-cotta, low-fire ceramic human head" with a minimum required bid of just $2,300. A woman who answered the phone at the gallery insisted that the items were "certifiably genuine." When asked about Nigeria's prohibition on the export and sale of Noks, she replied, "Maybe they were here before this...
...hoot; and I don?t know about you, but when I see a dozen performers toss batons 30 feet into the air and catch them at precisely the same instant a foot from the ground, I?m pretty darn impressed. "Blast" probably belongs more in a Las Vegas showroom than a Broadway theater. But if you can set aside your civic concern for the proper uses of New York City real estate (as the critics haven?t), you should have a good time...