Back in Manhattan, just north of Central Park on Frederick Douglass Boulevard, people bustled in and out of a soup kitchen and food bank that sits a few yards from designer beer halls and hip restaurants that have sprung up as the area attracts more professionals, students from nearby Columbia University and tourists.
It is $48 a yard from its designer, Cath Kidston of London, www.cathkidston.com or (212) 343-0212.
10 P.M. (DIY) I HATE MY YARD The landscape designer Sara Bendrick offers assistance to homeowners who love their houses but can't stand what's outdoors.
Ms. Haines-Stiles ferried her ottoman to Ms. Chan's studio at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, so the designer could recover it with velvet she found at P&S Fabrics in Chinatown.
The implementation of the LOGBASED-approach, provides a unique guidance to ship designers, yards, cargo owners and ship owners in realising a business opportunity within intermodal transport where the sea transport is the dominating leg.
The designs sell for $108 a yard to architects and designers at the John Rosselli showroom, 979 Third Avenue (59th Street), (212) 593-2120.
His one nod to ornateness is the laser-cut wood veneer wallpaper, called Marquetry, below left, from Maya Romanoff ($100 to $170 a square yard through architects and designers, 800-465-6909 800-465-6909 800-465-6909
But the biggest treat in town might be the yard haunts--Hollywood set designers and industry veterans spare no expense where decorations on their front lawns are concerned.
Comfortable armchairs are modeled in part on the "lumber yard" furniture of the Italian designer Enzo Mari.
Xorel, a woven polyethylene, comes in many textures: the two on the bottom are called Structures, by Anne Beetz, a Belgian designer ($27 a yard).
Fabrics by the designer are $215 a yard.
