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...When market interest surged in the kind of “design art” pieces that had made his name, Castle began to evolve new bodies of work through conversations with his galleries — Friedman Benda and R & Company...
...To be fair, many have escaped to the seaside towns outside of New York City since the widespread coronavirus lockdowns in March, but few are getting R&R at the moment....
...Consider Wendell Castle’s hardwood tables and chairs of the 1970s, shaped into forms so animated that we half expect them to breathe, yet polished to the texture of marble....
...janan.ganesh@ft.com Letter in response to this column: Europeans have social benefits Americans lack / From R Vijayaraghavan, San Jose, CA, US Follow Janan Ganesh with myFT and on Twitter...
...Another company elevating rugs to art is Italy-based Amini Carpets, which has teamed up with New York gallery R & Company for Woven Forms, a selling exhibition....
...The South Korean genre is a fusion of synthesised pop, rock, soul, R&B and hip-hop, where bands wear carefully co-ordinated outfits and perform snazzy dance routines....
...While Mr Brandon was happy with the early traffic at Toys R Us, he hesitated to jump to conclusions so early in the weekend....
...His actual engagement in many of the other Watergate scandals was more peripheral, at least in comparison with the likes of H.R....
...This example, The Black Edition, is of recent manufacture, being made from the original moulds in 2006, in conjunction with R 20th Century. $9,500....
...“We spend 10 per cent of our revenues on R&D. These are high fixed costs. When volumes [from products that emanate from the R&D] go down, we don’t look so bright,” Mr Weeks says....
...“We don’t know for sure that we can make products from the plant in the volumes we need, nor that the products will function in exactly the way we want them to,” says Wendell Weeks, chief executive of Corning...
...For instance, it depends heavily on the basic research conducted in universities and the R&D labs of big companies....
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