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...So one example of this is phone services in the US, which you're basically limited to AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, or Sprint if you want phone services in the United States. So that is an oligopoly....
...“If we didn’t have a cultural alignment it wouldn’t have happened, regardless of whether it made commercial sense,” he said....
...“I don’t think we are in a bubble, but I think we have a number of those unicorns that are overvalued and some will correct negatively in the next 12-18 months,” says Mr Backus....
...“I think that kitchen appliances, kitchen tools, and …dishes, cups, saucers, etc. are actually beautiful objects and don’t need to be hidden away,” remarked Martha Stewart, doyenne of US homemaking and head...
...Nonetheless, lighting designers well versed in the benefits of blue light don’t all agree on just how cold or how bright to go during the day....
...“We are doing more kitchens that you don’t see: kitchens that look like furniture that could go in the bedroom or in the living room, kitchens that are open to all spaces in the house.”...
...ceilings, a roof terrace, panoramic views, numerous balconies and large windows – and it needs roughly €400,000 worth of renovations “There are gorgeous towns with extraordinary potential but you can’t...
...As Jacopo has explained, if there is an earthquake, the house won’t collapse because there are steel trusses throughout that bind everything together....
...“You can’t do anything about the existing condos. There are too many owners. The Lido also just isn’t exquisitely beautiful, our coastline is amorphous and the sea is grey.”...
...“They don’t have answers yet but there are a range of providers moving in,” Aleksich says....
...Backus, for example, incorporates the flag and other national icons on some of its beer labels....
...Didn’t Greek scholar Archimedes discover the eureka moment in the bath? Salone Internazionale del Mobile, from Wednesday until April 19, tel: +39 02-725 941, www.isaloni.it...
...“If the bulbs aren’t available, what will happen to the fixtures? Do we throw them away? They won’t be the same thing any more.”...
...Karachi’s experience may be extreme but it doesn’t seem completely unfamiliar. When did you decide to renovate the house and what did the project entail?...
...I came from there and I promise you don’t want to go there.” The last sentence is pronounced with a touch of menace....
...(I can’t be sure because I didn’t take the test, which would have required a home visit and long interview.)...
...“It is reconceiving itself, rethinking the development of the city, which is something that hasn’t happened since 1954.”...
...It doesn’t have any [practical] use,” he says. Yet “our attraction to it is so deeply rooted. It must be something in our DNA.” ………………………....
...Birthistle, for one, isn’t worried about her investment. Although she and her husband currently visit the house about once every three weeks, they are seriously considering a permanent move next year....
...The London Art Fair runs from January 14 to 18. www.londonartfair.co.uk Stimulus Ambivalence David Backus My daughter has a t-shirt that reads: ”I’m confused. No wait, maybe I’m not.”...
...There aren’t really specific reasons why we adopted a pattern like the Greek key motif, for example....
...“Any design museum that doesn’t digitalise its collections will be losing out,” Sudjic says....
...Traditional floors are paved with a lime-based amalgam that doesn’t crack but rather undulates with the pull of settling walls....
...Yet having made this work, I don’t need it any more. I’m no longer worried about myself and my children being consumed by this culture....
...I don’t think that even after 50 years I’ve scratched the surface. So many things take a very long time to perceive, let alone understand....
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