Tom Dixon, 46, who taught himself how to weld metal furniture after quitting art school, was selected for his new furniture and lighting designs.

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More importantly, they keep acquiring stuff that cannot be consumed and never rots or rusts: plastic toys, metal garden furniture, porcelain knick-knacks.

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It may be a further stretch of the definition of biergarten, but the best beer bar in the city, Spuyten Duyvil in Williamsburg, does have a lovely, shaded backyard with trees and old metal lawn furniture.

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The walls and the ceiling had numerous holes, doors banged into other doors and there was abandoned furniture, including large metal safes, in every room.

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Blending seamlessly with the historical objects in Berger's studio are the early iterations of her debut furniture collection, made up of nine finely rendered handmade glass and metal pieces, launching this month at the Holly Hunt showroom in New York.

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The metal and leather headphones have a timeless look, like a piece of high-end furniture designed by Le Corbusier or Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

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