Word: workshoping
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...rekindled craftsmanship across Europe is the growing market for something distinctive in a world of sameness. It is this, together with newfound respect for those who made great works without great machines, that has Thom Price, a 31-year-old American, working in a squero, a traditional Venetian gondola workshop. Or that finds Australian enologist David Baverstock producing award-winning wines from old grape varieties found only in Portugal...
...photo shoot. Relaxing during a break, he picked up a light filter and began scrunching the plastic to make various shapes. Intrigued, Salto realized the filter could be curved in two directions at once. After three months experimentation with wood in a workshop, the plastic filter inspired the Runner chair, a wood and steel classic that is already a best seller...
When Thom Price arrived in Venice in 1996, he didn't know much Italian. He did, however, know the word squero - the workshop in which gondolas are made - and searched the phone book...
...Texas, and was on his way to becoming a squerariolo. It's not hard to sell a gondola, Price says, it's hard to find someone to make one for you. He returned to Bonaldo, and cut a deal with him for the use of his workshop and its strongback, the nearly 12-m frame around which a gondola is built. Now he finds his own clients, and in the last two years has built seven of the boats...
...than bingo. St. James parents like James and Colleen Wheaton now set limits on the number and prices of Christmas gifts for their kids, whether from relatives or from Santa. They use the savings to buy construction material to make more of their own family decorations--together. Ohmer's workshop, says Colleen, "was the first place we could finally legitimize our frustrations...