"Image, store development, packaging, fragrance — it's so much more than it was ten years ago.
"Seventy-one stairs," said Mr. Isler, who, until recently, managed the Sharper Image store on West 57th Street.
THE Sharper Image store on Manhattan's West 57th Street is sharp no more: its last state-of-the-art massage chairs and stylish humidifiers have been put in storage and its windows papered over.
The other day he made a quick trip to NYC, scouted some possible midtown sites for a new shop & then looked in on his Sharper Image store on Pier 17 at the South Street Seaport,.. Tells about the visit.
With its giant convex arch, its thick ribbon of hair and its thumb-operated tension-adjusting mechanism, the Vega bow looks like a gadget you might find on display at a Sharper Image store in 18th-century Leipzig.
Consider, for example, a footlong blue ovoid gadget dubbed Insector, the Bug Collector ($69.95), which has been, er, flying off the shelves of the Sharper Image store at 4 West 57th Street in the town now known as the Big Mosquito.
