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...In terms of products, classic art nouveau and art deco designs — such as Danish silversmith Christian Fjerdingstad’s iconic, curvy coffee pot — have been reissued....
...Bubbles’ desk, commissioned by record company boss Jake Riviera in 1981, is shaped like a bricklayers’ trowel propped up by a pile of wooden blocks that resemble a stack of books — a visual joke, perhaps...
...Gone were the pulp images of giant flesh-eating robots and Art Deco cities on the moon....
...“The tenants have to do a better job, which means . . . looking better, serving a better product, and hopefully we fit into that next wave.”...
...Even the toiletries are from a lovely County Down company called FieldDay....
...Bergamo-based Déco is one of 41 Italian construction groups in this year’s FT ranking of Europe’s fastest growing companies....
...It’s fun to see how inventive the French can be with a simple product....
...“It was a treasure hunt tracking down the watches for the collection,” says Matthieu Sauret, the brand’s product marketing and heritage director, “but you never know what really is the treasure....
...It’s filled with shops and stalls selling British Columbia-grown fruits and vegetables, and locally produced craft products — and, to be fair, also filled with tourists....
...“We are still blessed by being an independent company and we can be a little more self-indulgent....
...Close second place went to the elegant art-deco-style Allegro Royal Sonesta Hotel Chicago Loop, mostly for the impressive pet shrine in our room: leashes and poop bag holders, collapsible water bowls and...
...“It’s been great to work with a company who can upscale it.” The result is far less homespun than the above implies....
...The Rockbund Museum is a private institution housed in a gorgeous Art Deco building....
...It’s a contrast to how your brain works when you buy luxury products.”...
...In turn, multilateral lenders expect Somalia to expand its tax revenues — currently at a meagre 2.7 per cent of gross domestic product; far less than the African average of 16 per cent....
...The result was Sity, for furniture company B&B Italia, launched in 1986, the first in a series of sofas....
...Those pocket squares with the wonderful deco silk foulard prints!” he says....
...And “the absence of a catalogue for the Audoux-Minnet company allows only partial knowledge of their products”, suggests Félix Marcilhac Jr, director of Galerie Marcilhac in Paris....
...True, Britain’s joint-newest city is a product of the 1960s, not the 1920s....
...“It is historical like the Grand Bazaar, constructed for selling luxury products and I like that similarity,” says the jewellery entrepreneur....
...Certainly it’s what spurred the illustrator and product designer Ahmed Hefnawy to launch Cairopolitan, his gallery and concept store, in 2006....
...Tristan Auer has made a “beach club”, including a lifeguard chair and pontoon, designed in partnership with tea company Mariage Frères....
...He clearly has ambitions for the watches to be more than simply another product category within Louis Vuitton....
...On a recent trip to Ikea, I was struck by the prices (far higher than I’d remembered) and the number of products (far more than I’d thought possible)....
...I always say to people working in the company, you should not look at the profitability. Profitability is a consequence of work done well, and a consequence of desirability of the product....
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