Philippe Starck, the French designer, created the new Masters chair (at left) for the furniture manufacturer Kartell with the help of the designer Eugeni Quitllet. In doing so, he wove together three silhouettes by midcentury masters: Eero Saarinen's Tulip chair, Charles and Ray Eames's Eiffel chair and Arne Jacobsen's Series 7 chair. His...
In an apparent victory for the N.F.L., a state appeals judge in Minnesota upheld a lower court ruling that allowed the league to suspend two players on the Vikings who were found to have taken StarCaps, a supplement that included a banned substance. The players, Kevin Williams and Pat Williams, may now be forced to serve the four-game suspensions...
Ten iron and aluminum columns with glass cyclopean eyes stand sentinel on Howard Street between Third and Fourth Streets, intersecting the Moscone Center in the South of Market district. At night, the lamps' faces blaze with light as the necks swivel down, morphing into Parisian-style streetlights. The French Connection In November 1996, Mayor...