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Before christening his band, Knipfing knew of Lamont Library only as a neighbor to his place of employment; before joining the band, he did a brief stint bartending at the Harvard Faculty Club. However, Knipfing didn’t find his inspiration in the book emporium across the street; instead, his “Lamont” derives from the son of Redd Fox’s title character on the popular old sitcom “Sanford and Son.” Though Lamont’s website—complete with an intimidating logo of a hellhound surrounded...
...benefits too. Desiron, a downtown home-furnishings store, at right, provided a $900 coffee table and a $2,600 sofa to help spruce up Tom Kaden's living room. In the month after the show aired, sales of the items nearly quadrupled, according to the store. Visiting the housewares emporium Domain, Queer Eye's interior designer, Thom Filicia, got excited about the store's red Victoria settee ($3,099) and dubbed it a "chofa" (bigger than a chair, smaller than a sofa). Now Domain plans to rename it too--and has seen sales double. In another show, the crew went...
...peak of its popularity in the 1920s, the Wertheim department store on Leipziger Platz in central Berlin boasted of being the biggest in Europe, the place shoppers could find "everything under one roof," from French goat cheese to Wagner opera scores. One contemporary writer even hailed the emporium, with its statues and marble columns, as the Berlin Louvre. Like so much else in Berlin, Wertheim fell victim first to the Nazis and then to the postwar communist rulers of East Germany. Most of the Jewish Wertheim family members fled Germany or were killed at Auschwitz, and the property was nationalized...
French food emporium Fauchon also relies on herbal and floral notes for its Rose Petal, Toulouse Violet, Raspberry Chili Pepper and Mandarin Orange-Ginger ice creams. At New York City's Il Laboratorio del Gelato, Jon F. Snyder, who grew up working in his grandmother's Carvel franchise, makes 75 rotating varieties of intensely flavored ice creams and sorbets with selections like Lavender, Rice, Green Grape and a Black Plum that tastes fruitier than the actual fruit. --By Lisa McLaughlin
...century-old Royal Bank of Scotland on Savile Row, into a soaring yet soft retail space for Jil Sander. In the same vein, he created a modern shop in a 19th century building on 57th Street in New York City. In Milan he developed a 100,000-sq.-ft. emporium for Giorgio Armani, draped in soft blue hues, that complements the muted elegance that is the designer's trademark. "We're designing luxury retail spaces that don't feel commercial," he says. "They're being thought of as grand, modern homes...