 Bob Rowe Roxanne Quimby and Burt Shavitz, the co-founders of Burt's Bees, in 2001. |
Can Burt's Bees turn Clorox green?
By LOUISE STORY
Another small, eco-friendly business is scooped up by a corporation.
| Alice Rawsthorn: Farewell to Sottsass and his 2 golden ages of Italian design
By ALICE RAWSTHORN
Ettore Sottsass's death at 90 seems particularly poignant, because he was among the last of the 20th century design greats.
Home-office life and its discontents
By RALPH GARDNER JR.
Millions of Americans are now working outside traditional workplaces and have found themselves surprised by how difficult home-office life can be.
Books of The Times Book Review: 'In Defense of Food'
By JANET MASLIN
Obsessed with nutrition? That's an eating disorder
Ettore Sottsass, designer, is dead at 90
By ROBIN J. POGREBIN
Sottsass, an éminence grise of postmodern design, was responsible for the familiar bright red plastic Olivetti typewriter.
21st-century design: Judging beauty by what doesn't meet the eye
By ALICE RAWSTHORN
Today, new construction - like the design for the Olympic stadium in Beijing - is still a goal. But for something to be "good design" it must be something we can use with clear consciences about how it was made and how we'll get rid of it.
Alice Rawsthorn: iPhone's magic touch becomes design's gold standard for 2007
By ALICE RAWSTHORN
It would have been more surprising if the iPhone had flopped. What's less predictable — and much more interesting — is why it has been so very successful.
Lacroix hangs history out to show
By SUZY MENKES
"Christian Lacroix, Histoires de Mode" (at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs until April 20) is an exhilarating take on fashion history that mixes decades, centuries and designers - yet makes sense of each section.
Putting on the dog in Tokyo
By KAORI SHOJI
In Tokyo, dog owners are dressing up their pets in designer garb and attending to their every need, whether it be organic food or massage and grooming sessions at dog salons and spas.
Partying with the Super Rich at Art Basel Miami Beach
By GUY TREBAY
There were ceaseless celebrations by fashion and art bigwigs at Art Basel Miami Beach earlier this month. There were also wingdings hyping British shoemakers (Choo), Austrian crystal (Swarovski), German cars (Audi), French jewelry (Cartier), Bahamian resorts owned by Turkish developers (Dellis Cay) and, of course, the relentlessly bullish globalized market for art.
The tale of a teapot and its creator
By ALICE RAWSTHORN
Lovely though it is, one teapot's record-breaking price has more to do with the rarity and fetishism that seduce collectors and inflate auction values, than with its merits as an object.
Eco fashion? A world consumed by guilt
By ERIC WILSON
After factoring in the fabrics used in clothes and how they were produced, the real benefits of soy versus organic cotton versus recycled polyester may be slight, or confusing, or quite possibly misleading.
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