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WHEN EVO MORALES WAS elected Bolivia's President last month, his Socialist leanings set off alarms in the U.S. But on a tour that took him to nine nations--many led by fellow leftists--before his Jan. 22 inauguration, it wasn't his policies but his alpaca-wool pullover that had observers seeing...
...vanguard brother-sister team of Thien and My Ta Trung at Canadian design studio Periphere when they created the all-steel, rococo-esque Iceberg table, with a laser-cut snowflake pattern in bright mirror chrome. In similar fashion is the Conran Shop's Prince chair, with a wool-covered rubber seat and back?originally designed by Louise Campbell for an invitation-only competition to give form to a chair for Denmark's Crown Prince. Swede Monica Forster was inspired by snow crystals and sunbeams when building her zinc-plated, polyester-powder-coated Cake and Sun tables, which catch light...
...bright, fleeting moment, it worked, this fairy tale of American bigheartedness. In September Forrest King, a self-described "dyed-in-the-wool conservative," and his wife Marie Hancock-King opened up their home in Attleboro, Mass., to a lesbian couple with three small children and a grandmother, all of whom had fled Slidell, La., and Hurricane Katrina. The Meehan-Hoos placed their kids in school and heaped gratitude on their hosts. And King said they could stay indefinitely. TIME ran a story about the arrangement (Sept. 26, 2005), calling it a friendship "across the red-blue divide...
...Applied Arts Mini Boden corduroys and sweaters have appliqu?d details, as do wool slippers from Garnet Hill, above...
...clever way to decorate a child's room. These movable stickers are backed with low-tack adhesive and can be cut, colored in, layered and reused without damaging surfaces. They're available online at modernseed.com Applied Arts Mini Boden corduroys and sweaters have appliquéd details, as do wool slippers from Garnet Hill Riding In Style Call it the Murakami effect: strollers, like Vuitton handbags, are being fashionably customized. Dutch design company Bugaboo is introducing a line of limited-edition strollers by Dutch fashion designers. The first edition, by Bas Kosters, comes in a series...