Jens Quistgaard, 88, a Designer of Popular Tableware
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Mr. Quistgaard, whose clean-lined and immensely popular pieces for the Dansk brand of tableware helped define the Scandinavian Modern style for postwar Americans.
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As soon as Kerry Triffin spotted a bed crafted from New Zealand rimu wood at a New York design show last year, he wanted to carry it in his Connecticut furniture shop. His wife had a different idea.
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Life & style: On a small industrial estate near Ormskirk, one company is at the forefront of culinary invention.
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The designer Tucker Viemeister is still very attached to a well-worn set of wooden blocks he has had since childhood.
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Plus: At 80, fractal discoverer Benoit Mandelbrot says he has much math work left to do. [News.com Extra]
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Geoffrey Beene, the award-winning designer whose simple, classic styles for men and women put him at the forefront of American fashion, died Tuesday at his home. He was 77.
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An 80-year-old American historian, Jaroslav Pelikan, and a 91-year-old French philosopher, Paul Ricoeur, will share the &#36;1 million Kluge prize, created last year to honor achievement in fields not covered by the Nobel prizes.
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Biomimicry, interaction and do-it-yourself initiative ride the forefront of U.S. design, says a new exhibit. Michael Myser gets a sneak peek at the Design Life Now triennial at the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt in New York City.
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Although she hardly lifted a spatula until she was in her late 30s, Julia Child, who died last week at age 91, convinced a generation of Americans that if you can make a meat loaf, you can make a terrine de foie de porc, and if you can bake a pie, you can ...
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Life & style: In pictures: Iconic images feature in a new retrospective photographic exhibition.
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Architects who sell their designs on the Web say that the second-home shopper is a sought-after customer.
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"It is ridiculous. I have been a customer at ICA for more than 40 years and they know me"  GALLIVARE, Sweden - He may look young for his age, but 77-year-old Swedish retiree Per-Eric Henricsson was not flattered when his local supermarket asked him to show ID to prove that he was old enough to buy a ... via BismarckTribune
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Mike Friedlander, an architect for New Yorkâs Department of Sanitation, wins a design award.
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Company is working on flexible display technologies.
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Another designer tries to revive the label, and rise above its history of failure.
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After serving in the German Navy in World War II and struggling in the decade that followed, chef Herbert Diersch saw an opportunity in the United States and a better life for his wife and children.
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DEDHAM -- After more than 25 years of sitting in the same rickety chairs and eating at the same worn table, Peter and Joan Stefans were more than ready to replace the decades-old dining set handed down from Joan Stefans's parents. But almost as soon as they started looking, the bills landing in their mailbox persuaded them to stop.