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What is different about the retail design of Anthropologie stores? Most stores are obviously all about the product, but this is a shift. Instead it's a space for you and the product...
What is your retail-design style? Any environment that gives you the "Aha!" moment. It might be the Cloisters; it might be Anthropologie. People walk in and take a deep breath. It's a garden in a city, not somewhere to be hyper but a place for repose. My whole inspiration came from my experiences. So I wanted to differentiate. It doesn't matter if you have an experience if it's not a transformative experience...
...factory of 30 workers in 1967. He was the first to print patterns on suede and leather, a technique that turned out to be lucrative when both Hermès and Pierre Cardin in Paris snapped up Cavalli's materials. By the early '70s, he had the confidence to design his own ready-to-wear collection...
...Norman Foster, famed for the Millau viaduct in southern France and London's Swiss Re building. Hearst Tower, his debut large U.S. project, is the first office building in New York City to garner a gold rating from the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design scheme, the recognized U.S. standard for building sustainability. "My mission is to create a structure that is sensitive to the culture and climate of its place," says Foster. The structure will practice what the architect preaches: enter the building and you'll be greeted by Ice Falls, a three-story...
...Farsi-language PowerPoint presentation on the laptop has "catchy graphics," including diagrams of a hollow metallic sphere 2 ft. in diameter and weighing about 440 lbs. Other documents show a sphere-shaped array of tiny detonators. No file specifically refers to a nuclear bomb, but U.S. officials say the design of the sphere--an outer shell studded with small chemical-explosive charges meant to detonate inward, which would squeeze an inner core of material into a critical mass--is akin to that of classic devices like Fat Man, the atom bomb dropped on Nagasaki during World War II. "Because...