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Traci Fleming and Kaye Popofsky Kramer are pleased to announce the arrival of Nurseryworks, their Los Angeles-based company providing baby furniture and bedding for style-conscious parents who want to start the next generation off in supremely modern rooms of their own.
Fleming and Popofsky Kramer, determined to change the traditional pink-or-blue ethos of the generic baby's room, have commissioned inaugural collections of furniture and bedding from, respectively, Glenn Lawson and Grant Fenning of lawson-fenning and Rosemary Hallgarten, two California-based firms whose DNA derives from the easy, freshaesthetic of mid-century modern design.
lawson-fenning has developed a line that encompasses a standard crib, changing table, combined crib/changing table, dresser, and rocking chair. Hallgarten has created enchanting, sophisticated graphic patterns in pleasingly unexpected colors for a crib set consisting of a fitted sheet, pillow sham, crib skirt, bumper, and quilt.
Fleming and Popofsky Kramer, entrepreneurs in the home furnishings industry, have extensive backgrounds in business and entertainment. The two met through Step Up Women's Network, a non-profit organization that Popofsky Kramer founded in 1998 to strengthen community resources for women and girls, whose membership now numbers more than 3,500. "Through our interactio
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The National AIDS Memorial Grove is a seven-acre dell in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, California, a living tribute to all whose lives have been touched by AIDS. It is the only federally designated AIDS Memorial in the United States.
The Grove is a place where people gather to heal, hope, and remember. The goal of this competition is to identify an outstanding artistic complement to the Grove's award-winning landscape, an icon that will deepen, both visually and spiritually, the visitor's experience of this important environment. The winning design will be inherently egalitarian, expressing the cross-cultural and global impact of the AIDS pandemic, while honoring those who have died and those who have shared their struggle.
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The Italian cutural association “Architettan do” is organising an important exhibition of architecture at a national level, which deals with the theme of the Italian Interiors, designed by architects who are not more than fifty years of age.
The goal of this intiative, the only one of its kind, is to sound out Architecture an a national level, offering a considerable opportunity to architects and designers to show their work.
The exhibition will be held in 2005 in Cittadella (Padua) at some of the main exhibition venues in the town. A catalogue will be published and conferences are going be organised. At the conferences debates pertaining to architectural themes will take place.
Architects and Designers are invited to partecipate and send in their work. Further details can be obtained by visiting website. The selection will be made in two distinct phases.
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Apple today unveiled its new "mini" retail store, a stunning all-new design featuring stainless steel walls and seamless white floors and ceilings. The mini store is half the size of Apple's smallest store to date, which will allow it to be placed in a variety of new locations to introduce Apple's innovative products to even more customers. Apple will open its first six mini stores this Saturday at 10 a.m. in Palo Alto, CA; San Jose, CA; Santa Rosa, CA; Tukwila, WA; Bridgewater, NJ; and Rockaway, NJ.
"Our mini store is a big experience that fits in a small space," said Ron Johnson, Apple's senior vice president of Retail. "The mini store's small size will allow us to place stores in a variety of interesting new locations, while retaining innovations like the Genius Bar that have made Apple's retail stores such a hit."
During the first three years of Apple's retail strategy, Apple has successfully located 84 retail stores in the United States and today over half of the US population lives within 15 minutes of an Apple retail store. The mini store is designed to precisely locate additional stores closer to customers to make it even more convenient to purchase products and get help.
Since the opening of the first Apple retail store in May 2001, Apple
retail stores have attracted almost 50 million visitors, hosted thousa
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Architect David Adjaye on Wednesday presented a series of concept drawings that show the importance of light in the design of the new Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver.
"When you walk around the building, you will be bathed in light," which the London-based designer characterized as "kind of extraordinary here."
Adjaye is in Denver for a week to work on the museum and meet with the project's architect-of-recor d, Anderson Mason Dale, city officials and staff. His presentation Wednesday was sponsored by the Downtown Denver Partnership.
Although Adjaye did not specify the materials to be used, he said he expected the building to be translucent. "The building is about atmosphere and emotion . . . and will reveal opportunities for art," he said.
Meanwhile, across town, the city's other museum construction project celebrated its own milestone Wednesday: The final beam was put in place in the skeleton of the new Frederic C. Hamilton Building at the Denver Art Museum, designed by Daniel Libeskind. Steel erection there has moved quickly enough that officials moved the "topping out" ceremony up from Sept. 24.
The new MCA/Denver, to be built on a site at 15th and Delgany streets, will include a trio of forms that grow out of a mathematical concept called the Golden Section, or Golden Mean.
"It is Golden Section volu
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