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"Discoveries by Designers\nArchitectural Digest's Editors Present Designers' Sources\nCommissioned by Brad Pitt through Plug Lighting, Alison Berger's sculptural chandeliers are functional explorations of history, in light, glass and bronze. The Crystal Sphere chandelier echoes oil lamps that illuminate a Turkish mosque.\nThe Astrolabe is a reinterpretation of a 16th-century device used to calculate the position of the stars for sea travel. Magnifying lenses, etched glass, brass and bronze make up the heavily engineered piece.\nWhen writer and director Nancy Meyers needed to furnish Diane Keaton's Hamptons home in Something's Gotta Give (AD, November 2003), she turned to Brenda Antin. With a new, larger Los Angeles shop, Antin has more room for European antiques that catch her eye and her own line of reproductions. Pillows made from antique textiles and American furniture from the 1930s and '40s add to the selection.\nMarsia Holzer's arboreal and organically shaped lamps and tables are a departure from her previous career as a costume designer for Broadway shows and for rock legends such as Elvis Presley, The Rolling Stones and Bruce Springsteen. Beneath the pochote, jallo and guanacaste tabletops, culled from beaches and lagoons in Costa Rica, are forged iron and bronze bases. Holzer works with a foundry in Scotland to cast, in bronze, the driftwood she finds on kayak excursions in the Hamptons. Paul Newman commissioned one of her wrapped hollow-wire sculptures, which come in equine shapes as well as lighting. By appointment.\n\nHollow wire is wrapped around welded frames to create lampshades. Holzer uses the technique to make sculptures of horses and bicycles.\nSince the 30s the same family in Bourg-en-Bresse, in the Lyon region of France, has been handcrafting exact replicas of antique furniture. C\u00F4t\u00E9 France has been importing those pieces, such as the Commode Riche En Bronze, a cherrywood replica of a Louis XV chest. The painted losange finish gives the traditional commode a modern context. The piece is available in many colors, woods and finishes.\nThey have the best product with the greatest variety,\" Suzanne Lovell says of Illinois-based Material Possessions. Its new 6,300-square-foot space in Chicago's Cathedral District is a showroom for the entire house. For the dining room, three tabletop workstations invite customers to choose plates, glasses and linens and arrange them to their taste. Antique furniture mixes well with decorative objects from Japan and China and newer items such as a handcarved resin bowl and silverplated salad servers.\nJoan Adler's vision for her Litchaeld County store, Personal Best Monogram Shoppe, goes beyond simple monogramming to create a \"lifestyle brand\" for a client. In addition to personalizing everything from china to draperies, from one towel to napkin rings for a party of 400, Adler has an exclusive agreement with an artist who designs signature monograms. The artist's father, one of the last hand engravers in the country, makes intricate dies of the monogram brand. Thomas Pheasant is among those who have visited the shop.\n\nAn extensive array of items can be engraved or embroidered at the shop.\nNiall Bourke, an Irish woodworker who specializes in French polishing, antique restoration and antique reproduction, is known asKipper (with a chest with Venetian-style chinoiserie). He uses antique chisels and planes on old-growth wood with traditional shellacs and glues to create museum-quality pieces for clients, including Craig Wright."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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