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Barcelona Industrial Design Pioneer on Classic Craft and Minimalism (VIDEO)

Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 02.07.2013 | HuffPost Home
Read More: Antoni Gaudi, Crafted Design, Stylist Home, La Pedrera, Craft, Spain, Craftmanship, Minimalism, Classic Design, Stylist, Casa Mila, Furniture Design, Video, Miguel Mila, Gonzalo Mila, Distilled Perspective, Style, Barcelona, Handmade, Diy, Green News, Handcraft, Simplicity, Guilds, Barcelona Design, Slow Design, HuffPost Home News
Kirsten Dirksen

His family left its mark on the Barcelona skyline (his uncle commissioned Antoni Gaudí to design the Casa Milà), but Miguel Milà chose to leave his imprint on a more modern field of design, dropping out of architecture school in the 1950s to pioneer the field of Spanish industrial design.

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Deep Craft: Go Beyond Etsy and Make Toward Slow Design and the Good Life (VIDEO)

Kirsten Dirksen | Posted 10.11.2012 | HuffPost Home
Read More: Style News, Wowhaus, Green News, Deep Craft, Craftmanship, Woodworking, Open Source Design, Etsy, Furniture Design, Sonoma County, Simple Living, Handmade, Guilds, Good Life, Scott Constable, San Francisco, Slow Design, Video, HuffPost Home News
Kirsten Dirksen

Discuss "craft" with Scott Constable, whose training includes apprenticeships under master woodworkers and who specialization in traditional joinery, and you're likely to hear about such things as traditional bodgery and English guilds.

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A Fashion Foreign Policy

Michael Likosky | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Auto Industry, Sporting Goods, Vivienne Westwood, Punk Rock, How Luxury Lost Its Luster, Bailouts, President Obama, Target, Globalization, California, Paris, Bernard Arnault, Luxury, Fashion Foreign Policy, Foreign Commercial Policy, Guilds, Trade Agreements, Rules of Origin, What Not to Wear, Export-Import Bank, Bailing Out Luxury, Carla Behrle, Loomstate, Private Equity, Artisans, America's Next Model, Nafta, Jennie Livingston, Outsourcing, Labor, Paris Is Burning, Worker Rights, Overseas Private Investment Corporation, LVMH Moet Hennessy, Dana Thomas, Culture Industry, Wto, Business News
Michael Likosky

To protect American workers, in the luxury sector and elsewhere, our government trade negotiators should revisit outsourcing rules.

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