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A Note on Our Expert: Jake Godby

It’s rare to find a friction-free workplace, but Jake Godby can proudly claim he has one. “The thing about an ice-cream shop,” he says, “is that nobody comes in with a bad...

01.01.09
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A Note on Our Expert: Laura Guido-Clark

After designing for other companies for a few years, Guido-Clark started a firm 16 years ago with a friend. Working for companies as diverse as Mattel, Toyota, and InterfaceFLOR, she has learned...

01.01.09
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A Note on Our Expert, Debra Prinzing

While scouting backyards for Seattle Homes & Lifestyles in 2000, then–garden editor Debra Prinzing repeatedly stumbled upon sheds retrofitted for everything from potting plants to serving supper.

01.01.09
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A Note on Our Expert, Peter Bentel

Peter Bentel is a modernist raised by modernists: The son of influential mid-century architects Frederick and Maria Bentel, Peter is a partner at Bentel & Bentel, which his parents established in...

01.01.09
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A Note on Our Experts, Jessica Morgan and Heather Cocks

It’s no secret that America has a never-ending appetite for celebrity gossip and its subset, celebrity fashion.

01.01.09
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A Note on Our Expert, Eric Ryan

Eric Ryan is the cofounder and chief brand architect of Method.

01.01.09
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A Note on Our Expert, Patti Stanger

Patti Stanger comes from a line of matchmakers, and as the CEO of Millionaire’s Club (which connects well-heeled gents with high-heeled women) and the host of Bravo’s series The Millionaire...

01.01.09
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A Note on Our Expert, Jason F. McLennan

Jason F. McLennan is CEO of the Cascadia Region Green Building Council, the Pacific Northwest’s leading organization in the field of sustainable development.

01.01.09
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A Note on Our Experts, Elisabeth Prueitt and Chad Robertson

Award-winning bakers Elisabeth Prueitt and Chad Robertson met in 1992 and married in 1994.

01.01.09
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A Note on Our Expert, Andi Kovel

Andi Kovel’s background in sculpture, painting, photography, accessory design, and art theory uniquely equip her to become one of the most original and influential glass artists working today.

01.01.09
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A Note on Our Expert, Rich Hansen

Rich Hansen honed his diverse design chops over the course of 25 years spent feeding an insatiable appetite for all things aesthetic.

01.01.09
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A Note on Our Expert, Mike Andrews

Mike Andrews is not only a multi-instrumentalist, producer, composer, and avid iPod user, but also a fan of California modernism—–he lives in and works from a 1969 Daniel Carmichael–designed home...

01.01.09
My House

The Pace of Portland

When creative director Ben Watson and his partner, painter Claudio Tschopp, relocated from Basel, Switzerland, to Portland, Oregon, three years ago, they had been told about Portland’s Pearl...

written by: Brian Libby

photos by: John Clark

01.01.09
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A Note on Our Expert: Sally Kuchar

Sally Kuchar’s interest in design was piqued at age seven, sitting in her father’s Wassily chair.

01.01.09
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A Note on Our Expert: Richard Wright

Richard Wright (not to be confused with the Richard Wright who authored Native Son or the Richard Wright who plays keyboards for Pink Floyd) is the proprietor of the world’s most renowned auction...

01.01.09
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A Note on Our Expert: D.L. Byron

D.L. Byron is the principal of Textura Design, Inc., a Seattle firm that specializes in business blogging, and the publisher of Bike Hugger, a blog about bike culture.

01.01.09
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A Note on Our Expert: Angelika Taschen

Angelika Taschen got her doctorate in art history from the University of Heidelberg in 1986. She has edited for Taschen since 1987, publishing numerous titles on architecture, photography, design,...

01.01.09
How they make it

Cold Press

The factory floor is a city of tall hydraulic presses. Humming and chinking sounds bellow down aisle after aisle. Workers wearing light-blue gloves spray grease onto sheet-metal pieces, place them...

01.01.09
How they make it

Weld

Tungsten inert gas (TIG) welds and spot-welds join the molded parts. In TIG welding, the inert gas argon is blown out of a nozzle to surround a white-hot tungsten electrode at the tip of the...

01.01.09
How they make it

Polish

Alessi uses two types of 18/10 stainless steel (the number refers to the chromium-to-nickel ratio): 2B, with a carbon content of 0.2 percent, is more malleable and less shiny than BA, which has 0.4...

01.01.09
How they make it

Package

After more than 100 steps, the completed parts are ready for packaging. Workers assemble the upper container, filter funnel, gasket, and boiler in much the same way that the eventual user will put...

01.01.09
How they make it

Shear and Coin

The metal-punching facility is down the road from the Magis headquarters in Motta di Livenza, in northeastern Italy. Steel sheets, 191⁄2 inches high, 45 inches wide, and less than 1⁄16-inch thick,...

01.01.09
How they make it

Cuts, Curves, Cuts

The tool that folds the curve of the back of the chair is the most dramatic, but it is no more essential than the others, which trim the edges, cut the holes, and add a final soft angle to the...

01.01.09
How they make it

Molten Dust

Piombino Dese, a drab industrial town between Venice and Verona, has many small glass companies, including Vetrerie New Glass, founded by Franco Pellizzon in 1991 and one of several Glo-Ball...

01.01.09
How they make it

Blow Mold

When the blob has reached a diameter of about six inches, it has already been handled by two or three blowers, who multitask like chefs.

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