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BLACK Once black came back into fashion this fall, it was only a matter of time before the color would hit the furniture and tabletop markets too. Companies like Lalique and Baccarat are leading the call for darker hues with retro-inspired collections of inky black glass...
...GLASS Collectible glass is on the rise. And some of the best pieces are made from recycled bottles. Los Angeles design studio Artecnica has introduced tranSglass, an environmentally conscious line of glassware that has landed in MOMA's tabletop collection. London-based artisans Tord Boontje and Emma Woffenden have molded and handcrafted the hard, sharp, clean forms that retain the original colors of the shards fished from the Dumpster...
FASHION PLATES Fine china looks a lot like apparel now that Missoni, Kate Spade and Vera Wang are turning out their own tabletop designs. The latest introductions are Missoni's Carousel collection, above right, featuring splashes of the house's signature zigzag (at Barneys New York). The three patterns in Spade's St. Kitt's line, above left, are meant to be mixed and matched (at bloomingdales.com...
...house was in the way. “You just knocked somebody’s house under the plans,” said Kevin McCluskey, the University’s director of community relations for Boston, who quickly removed the eraser-sized gray house jamming the tabletop model of Harvard’s properties in Allston. It was the only hiccup in a media tour yesterday afternoon of the new “Harvard in Allston Exhibit Room” in the Holyoke Center arcade. Students, faculty, and Allston residents will tour the room, which houses the model and roughly...
...order to prevent insomnia, he had his eureka moment while reading himself to sleep five years ago. On a magazine ad covered in his scribblings, Dong's method, dubbed Verity, was born. Engineers had been calculating fatigue life the wrong way for 60 years. Push your hand against a tabletop. Force is the amount of effort you exert; stress is how that force is distributed across your palm. Push your hand against a corner, and the stress becomes impossible to compute reliably. But if you can figure out how much effort you're using (force), stress becomes much easier...