Arthur Pita is one of the five dance-makers commissioned to create Other Stories, a programme of contemporary works that Whelan is performing with Edward Watson this summer.
Then there are the companies, like Korbel, the California champagne maker, which commissioned Mr. Sperling to find the most romantic city (West Palm Beach, Fla.), or the Hartz Mountain Corporation, which makes pet supplies (and flea collars), and wanted to discover the most flea-ridden city (stay away from Hot Springs, Ark ..
Synaptics initially moved toward its first practical product in 1992, when Swiss computer-peripherals maker Logitech commissioned a chip for a touchpad.
As demand for his work grew prominent hotels and the furniture maker Kohler Interiors commissioned several large-scale pieces and furniture lines Kuo turned to his old homeland for the expertise he needed.
The bag-maker is commissioned to make a bag for a woman's heart that lies outside of her body and he slowly develops an implacable obsession with the "vulnerable organ".
A beautiful harp with the label of the maker Érard Frères, commissioned in 1812, could be had for €2,726, far above the €800 estimate — the instrument is not fit to play.
Due to the success of "JK Divorce," Indigo has struck a revenue-sharing ad deal with YouTube and electronics maker Ricoh has commissioned five new corporate training videos and a technical school based in New York has requested a recruitment video as well.
But the work of the bakers and cake makers she commissions (she doesn't herself cook) has certainly found a fan base – a rather large one, as it happens.
And there's Lady Bamford, millionaire and organic jam-maker, who recently commissioned him to take her passport photo.
At his initiative, Rome became a centre for goldsmiths and silversmiths; he employed French, Belgian, and German tapestry makers; and he commissioned artists of note, among them the great Florentine painter Fra Angelico (1387 1455), to beautify his constructions.
