Sentences with phrase «century design hosted»

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Peter Drucker, arguably the leading management thinker of the twentieth century, observed, «If a new venture does succeed, more often than not it is n a market other than the one it was originally intended to serve, with products and services not quite those with which it had set out that are bought in large part by customers it did not even think of when it started and used for a host of purposes besides the ones for which the products were first designed.»

Naper Settlement is playing host to an informal Volunteer Open House designed to show prospective volunteers exhibits and opportunities to pitch in and help Naperville's 19th Century village.

Bill Bensley and Bensley design studio modelled the property on the concept of a Laotian hill station from the turn of the 20th century, in which a grand and gracious home of a French host would be opened to intrepid adventurers and curious travellers from diverse walks of life who managed to make their way to this magical corner of the world.

Inside a 19th - century red - brick building, Covent Garden Hotel is an exhibition of theatrical, quintessentially British design that plays host to a fireside bar - cum - library and a private 47 - person screening room and film club.

This fresh new museum hosts a large selection of Catalonian design history from the third century to present day, all housed in a large 8000 square meter building just off the Placa de les Glòries Catalanes.

The High Museum of Art will host «European Design Since 1985: Shaping the New Century,» the first comprehensive assessment of Western European design from 1985 toDesign Since 1985: Shaping the New Century,» the first comprehensive assessment of Western European design from 1985 todesign from 1985 to 2005.

The Palazzo Barbaro on the Grand Canal in Venice has played host to Henry James, who used it as the setting of The Wings of the Dove; to Isabella Stewart Gardner, who designed her museum in Boston to mimic the space's splendor; to other members of the Boston Brahmin, who brought over guests such as John Singer Sargent and Robert Browning; and to centuries of Venetian elite, who occupied the opulent confines since it opened in 1465, which was, you know, a few decades before the Italian Christopher Columbus came to America.