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...still had the old wicker wheelchairs on each floor, in case someone got hurt,” says Richard P. Gaffney, Necco’s current director of special projects. “There was a locker in the cafeteria where they kept helmets and stretchers for air raids...
...foie gras and poultry market here has dwindled over recent years to just a handful of farmers. Madame Gazel, seated at a rickety folding table, is a 32-year veteran of the market, her carefully plucked chickens stashed in blue plastic picnic coolers and her fresh eggs in a wicker basket. A few blocks away, the tree-lined boulevard called the Allées Jules Guesde hosts the big regional antiques and bric-a-brac market held on the first full weekend of every month. Dealers have to wait as long as two years to secure a regular stand here...
...Paper House” (1995), “East Gate of Odawara Pavilion” (1990), “Library of a Poet” (1991), “Innai Hospital Day Care Center” (2000), “Paper Arch” (2000) and “Wicker Work House” (2002), with each accompanied by replicas explaining important features of each structure’s design...
...periodic buying trips to Shantou, a port city in Guangdong province. Here, inside a cluster of brick warehouses at the end of a dirt lane, hundreds of thousands of discs by foreign artists, both major and minor, are piled in cardboard boxes and wicker baskets stacked several meters high. Li wades through the CD sea like a beachcomber, looking for favored titles. He buys the discs by the hundreds for 12 cents each, then sells them back in Guangzhou for $2 apiece. "This," Li says, glancing up from his treasure hunt, "is my paradise...
...respecting Frenchman, he invented an original concept (original, at least, to Paris). That concept is Be, a new shop that Ducasse opened in the city's posh eighth arrondissement. Be - which presents itself as "the very first bakery-grocery store" - is a corner shop reimagined by a fashion magazine. Wicker baskets behind the counter are piled with 18 different types of handmade bread. The oak shelves lining its plate-glass windows are crammed with groceries no upscale Parisian kitchen can be without, from squid ink to balsamic vinegar. "Our customers know that every product has been personally chosen and tested...