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Chrysler is the title automotive sponsor of the 2nd annual Indianapolis Concours d'Elegance, which features the best of classic cars, fashion and art. The event will be held on Monument Circle in the center of downtown Indianapolis on Saturday June 19th, the day before the U.S. Grand Prix at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Event goers will have an opportunity to walk "Chrysler Row" and see twenty Chrysler vehicles, representing the best of Chrysler design and engineering over the past 50 years, as well as visit Chrysler's Club 300 and see first hand the legendary HEMI(R) engine and other entertaining exhibits.
"Chrysler's history in Indiana dates back to the early part of the 20th Century and since then, we have been committed to supporting the economic vitality of the many communities where we have manufacturing facilities and dealerships," said Jeff Bell, Vice President - Chrysler. "The Indianapolis Concours d'Elegance is not only a chance for Chrysler to showcase some of its best past and present vehicles, but also gives us a chance to give back to the community and support a very worthwhile cause."
Among the historic vehicles that will be on display on "Chrysler Row" are the 1949 Chrysler Town & Country, 1951 Chrysler Windsor, 1955 Chrysler C300 and 1960 Chrysler 300F as well as the Pronto Spyder, which debuted as a concept car in 1998.
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For the first time, the Eastern Goldfields Senior High School has put together a team for an assault on this year's Western Power Solar Model Car Challenge.
The big race will be conducted on October 28-29 in Perth's Forrest Place, with the local students now busily prototyping work on their entry.
The annual challenge pits students from around WA against each other to design and build model cars powered by a standard-sized solar panel.
The cars are then raced around a figure-eight track, with the winner the car that completes the circuit in the fastest time.
Although four months away, 32 teams have already registered for the race, which will be the 13th in the challenge's history.
Three students from the Year 12 senior science class will head up the EGSHS team - Royden Bird, Jai Semmens and Damien Gray.
The trio are confident their car will be competitive.
At present, the team is experimenting with different bearing configurations and wheel designs to determine the best combinations for racing.
"We know that weight and friction will be the main factors in the car's performance," Jai said.
"We have got a lot of work ahead to reduce these before thinking about a motor.
"At the moment, we are experimenting with CD's for wheels and aluminium for the main body parts, but this may change."
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Even if this is the first time you've ever heard Maria Yee's name or seen her face, you already know her, or rather, her style.
Yee's simple but beautiful furniture designs hold within them a statement, or maybe it's a wish to live simply.
Her style has more than one look and reflects the same graceful moves that keep her in step with changing lifestyles.
"I don't have so much the desire for people to know that it is my name on the design," says Yee, whose furniture is as functional as it is a piece of art.
"I don't have the desire for people to know so much about me, Maria Yee," she says. "But it makes me very happy to see people enjoy and appreciate the design, and then say, 'Yes, this is a beautiful piece.'"
To know Maria Yee is to know more about her work. It is like a classic Coco Chanel black dress or a softly tailored Vera Wang gown. The beauty is in the details, those little things that matter and that you might not notice.
"With contemporary (design), it's very easy to dress up or dress down," says Yee, who is very much like her design style: spare and free, from her signature short hairstyle to her Mandarin-style blouse and slacks.
Her aura of joy is contagious. She smiles and laughs easily, bringing this out in others.
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The U.S. government is expected to propose new tariffs tomorrow on an array of Chinese-made furniture imports -- the latest turn in a trade battle that has split a U.S. industry and begun to remap a global supply chain.
Regulators could propose as many as nine different tariff rates -- some for individual Chinese manufacturers and some for groups of manufacturers, according to officials at the U.S. Department of Commerce. The dumping investigation that accompanies tariffs covers $1.2 billion of annual imports of dressers, bed frames and nightstands, making it the largest-ever antidumping probe that the U.S. has conducted against China.
Dan Ikenson, policy analyst for Cato's Center for Trade Policy Studies, writes: "The case of Wooden Bedroom Furniture from China has nothing to do with unfair trade and is a perfect example of the need for antidumping reform. The filing of this case was a tactical maneuver by one group of domestic producers that seeks to exploit the gaping loopholes of the antidumping law to get a leg up on its domestic competition.
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Darby Langdon opted out of about 3,000 square feet of living space and rooms full of furniture when she left her two-story suburban home last year for a Belltown condominium.
A bedroom suite, three or four sofas and assorted chairs found new homes in her old neighborhood. Boxes and boxes of books went to the community library for its annual sale. A huge yard sale took away everything but the weeds.
Langdon, a Seattle business executive, had planned carefully -- sketching rooms to scale, measuring furniture she wanted to move, making certain things would fit. In the end, she only needed two new things: love seats for the living room. "A big sofa wouldn't work here," she said, looking around her two-bedroom condominium, which totals about 1,100 square feet.
Sofas scaled to smaller spaces and humans haven't exactly dominated the furniture scene since the 1980s, the decade when furniture became super-sized along with big hair and big shoulders. "Think Dallas," Polly Teeter explained with a grin. "Now we're returning to people-scaled furniture."
Teeter is the third generation to run Del-Teet, a furniture store started by her grandfather. It's been a fixture in Bellevue for 75 years.
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