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October 18, 2024 Beatriz Ball says Cheers to Fall Entertaining!
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Beatriz Ball says Cheers to Fall Entertaining!
October 18, 2024
Double the serving options! On trend, beautifully functional and wildly attractive, Beatriz Ball’s THANNI Double Ice Bucket (White and Gold) is a sleek gold-tone and white enamel metal serving piece that is both artistic and dramatic. Our THANNI Double Ice Bucket (White and Gold) features a flaring shape, dramatic depth, and daring double form. Its generous figure-8 opening holds two bottles of wine. A great new luxe piece with plenty of eye-appeal on the bar or kitchen island. Makes a ...
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August 14, 2024 Maritime Masterpiece
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Maritime Masterpiece
August 14, 2024
With echoes of caryatids, the draped female figures used as columns in ancient Greek architecture, Herend's sculptor has created a compote supported by three elegant seahorses with draping as well - albeit with a pattern alluding to the intricate armored plates that cover their bodies. Once this piece was given to the painting studio, the artists added to the story by decorating each seahorse in a slightly different fishnet color palette reflecting their maritime home. To complete the beautiful ...
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May 29, 2024 THE SWIFT GENERATION
THE SWIFT GENERATION
May 29, 2024
I’m going to presume you know Taylor Swift, the pop superstar with widespread public appeal and a vast fan base, who has influenced not only the music industry, but popular culture, politics, and economics. Her recent $5 billion Eras tour had a fiscal impact greater than 50 countries. The Taylor Swift economy has reached every town in America, measured in national retail sales figures, global inflation, and municipal economic bumps where concerts were held. The Swift microeconomy reaches ...
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May 9, 2024 Big-Box Stores Embrace Online Shopping, Begrudgingly
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Big-Box Stores Embrace Online Shopping, Begrudgingly
May 9, 2024
Big-box stores are adapting to e-commerce, shares The Wall St. Journal.  

Article figures:
  • In 2014, e-commerce was 6% of retail sales.  In 2023, it was 15%. 
  • Target fulfills almost 100% of online orders in-store and Walmart half of online orders in-store. 

Customers prefer physical stores alongside e-commence because:
  • They save money on fees, such as shipping. 
  • They can get the item faster. (Delivery may take a few days.) 
  • When doing returns,
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March 27, 2024 Tableware Today Interview - Jim Shreve, Tim DeVine, Mark Brashear, & Sally Burnside
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Tableware Today Interview - Jim Shreve, Tim DeVine, Mark Brashear, & Sally Burnside
March 27, 2024
Jim Shreve made Baccarat hip. Now, he and his longtime partner, Mark Brashear, along with Sally Burnside, the former Baccarat sales V.P., intend to do the same for DeVine Corp., the 32-year-old distributor of elite European brands. You're invited to the opening!
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Congrats to you all. This is very exciting. Tim, we’ve known each other since before you started DeVine Corp., 32 years ago. You’ve been looking for the right opportunity to retire.
TIM ...
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March 27, 2024 ANNIVERSARY WISHES
ANNIVERSARY WISHES
March 27, 2024
A McKinsey study found that the average life span of companies listed on the S&P 500 was 61 years in 1958; today, it’s less than 18 years. McKinsey believes that by 2027, 75% of S&P 500 companies will have disappeared. New businesses have an 81% chance of surviving their first year; in two years, a little less than 70% of businesses are still standing. Only 25% make it to 15 years or more. There’s a clear long-term trend of declining corporate longevity, with this figure ...
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December 17, 2023 The new threat: Chinese apps backed with Chinese factories
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The new threat: Chinese apps backed with Chinese factories
December 17, 2023
The Atlantic shares how Chinese factories have found a new way around U.S. retailers and into our homes: Chinese apps. SHEIN and other Chinese apps are bypassing Amazon to be a new leader in Chinese goods.  In addition to Amazon, Target, Walmart, and indie shops now have a new group of digital competitors embedded in customers’ pockets. 

Except from The Atlantic article: 

MATERIAL WORLD
IS THIS HOW AMAZON ENDS?
An open embrace of cheap foreign products has helped ...
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December 8, 2023 Kate Spade New York @ 20
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Kate Spade New York @ 20
December 8, 2023
Kate Spade New York tableware and accessories has for two decades held a singular spot on retail shelves and on customers’ tables thanks to a timeless charm and chic stylings. Even after 20 years, the fun, fresh, playfully sophisticated, and refreshingly original collections from Lenox occupy a unique niche in the tableware pantheon. 

Kate Spade’s contribution to fashion cannot be understated. She became synonymous with fashionistas everywhere when she started her fashion ...
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December 7, 2023 MacKenzie-Childs Santa Figures At Glassworks!
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MacKenzie-Childs Santa Figures At Glassworks!
December 7, 2023
The man with many names. Whether you refer to him as Santa Claus or Father Christmas, the man with the big white beard is a staple for the season.
Delight in the details of MacKenzie-Childs handmade and hand-painted Santas, dressed head to toe in tartan, velvet, faux fur, and velveteen with Courtly Check accents. Stop in at the Shadyside store to see them in-person.

Click here to shop for MacKenzie-Childs Holiday on this website.

 
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November 30, 2023 New Nambe' Nativity Set At Glassworks!
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New Nambe' Nativity Set At Glassworks!
November 30, 2023
Modern yet timeless, Nambe's 12-Piece Nativity Set reinterprets the iconic scene of the Holy Family, Three Wise Men, Angel, and the Shepherd with his animals in alloy with an Acacia wood crèche (8.5” H and 10” W with the figures varying in height up to 7.25”).
Pass your Nambé Nativity set down from one generation to the next in this hand-crafted acacia keepsake storage box (23" x 23" x 13"). Included in each box are two layers of custom formed foam...
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November 30, 2023 New Nambe' Nativity Set At Glassworks!
New Nambe' Nativity Set At Glassworks!
November 30, 2023
Modern yet timeless, Nambe's 12-Piece Nativity Set reinterprets the iconic scene of the Holy Family, Three Wise Men, Angel, and the Shepherd with his animals in alloy with an Acacia wood crèche (8.5” H and 10” W with the figures varying in height up to 7.25”).
Pass your Nambé Nativity set down from one generation to the next in this hand-crafted acacia keepsake storage box (23" x 23" x 13"). Included in each box are two layers of custom formed foam...
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November 22, 2023 Choose the Perfect China for Your Thanksgiving Dessert
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Choose the Perfect China for Your Thanksgiving Dessert
November 22, 2023
Got Thanksgiving dessert perfected, not too sweet, not too heavy; individual apple cranberry gazettes. Now we just have to figure out which china pattern to use; Chelsea Bird, Sacred Bird & Butterfly, or Duke of Gloucester? View Post
July 25, 2023 This and That
This and That
July 25, 2023
I have a stack of virtual news clippings that either struck my fancy, taught me something new, or just made me shake my head in bemusement. On their own, they may not be enough for me to make a point, but together they have a thought-provoking synergy (and I'm sure I'll figure out what that is by the end of this column).

Our industry has been negatively affected by the loss of American manufacturing after we entered a long stretch of automation and outsourcing in the late 1970s; every ...
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May 29, 2023 Tableware Today Interview – Susan Gravely
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Tableware Today Interview – Susan Gravely
May 29, 2023
Susan Gravely – alongside her sister, Frances, and mother, Lee – founded VIETRI 40 years ago after a serendipitous vacation where they discovered the charms of Italian ceramics. Gravely’s new book, Italy on a Plate, equal parts travelogue/cookbook/memoir, is a culinary delight celebrating four decades of bringing the best of Italy’s tableware to an adoring fan base.
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You and I go back almost to the start of VIETRI in 1983. [Editor&rsquo...
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March 21, 2023 Echoes of Caryatids
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Echoes of Caryatids
March 21, 2023
With echoes of caryatids, the draped female figures used as columns in ancient Greek architecture, Herend's sculptor has created a compote supported by three elegant seahorses with draping as well - albeit with a pattern alluding to the intricate armored plates that cover their bodies. Once this piece was given to the painting studio, the artists added to the story by decorating each seahorse in a slightly different fishnet color palette reflecting their maritime home. To complete the beautiful ...
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March 8, 2023 Colorful Birds of Spring
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Colorful Birds of Spring
March 8, 2023
The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and it feels like spring!  A sampling of Mottahedeh's bird figurines, all unique, hand painted and made in Italy. View Post
September 8, 2022 Dollars and Sense Advice from Mom 👩‍🦰
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Dollars and Sense Advice from Mom 👩‍🦰
September 8, 2022
When I was a kid, my mom instilled in me a lesson to always get paid for my work. When I went to mow a lawn or do my newspaper route, she’d remind me,  “Be sure you get paid.”  As an adult, these flashbacks are vivid like a scene from Citizen Kane—just swap out the Rosebud sled with my newspaper delivery bike.  Today, this lesson still resonates when running Bridge. When calling a store that hasn’t paid its Bridge bill, I’m confident in asking ...
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December 30, 2021 Bloomberg: Shopify vs. Amazon
Bloomberg: Shopify vs. Amazon
December 30, 2021
Last February e-commerce company Shopify Inc. replaced the “Ottawa, Canada” dateline that began its press releases and earnings reports with a strange new one: “Internet, Everywhere.” The geographical shift came at the insistence of Shopify’s founder and chief executive officer, Tobi Lütke, who tends to view such matters through the prism of cold, hard logic. In May 2020, only a few months into the pandemic, he’d made the early, seemingly rash decision to...
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December 3, 2021 MacKenzie-Childs Patience Brewster Nativity Set & More At Glassworks!
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MacKenzie-Childs Patience Brewster Nativity Set & More At Glassworks!
December 3, 2021
Celebrate the spirit of Christmas with the Nativity collection from Patience Brewster by MacKenzie-Childs. An ever-expanding group of handmade and hand-painted figures tells the story of the first Christmas in a colorful and captivating way. The Patience Brewster Nativity Set includes the Holy Family, Three Kings, Shepherd, and Sheep Figures, Praying Angel, and Nativity Shelter. Additional figures shown are also available in-stock at Glassworks.
Stop in to see our selection of Christmas ...
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June 24, 2021 New Vietri Pesci Colorati Collection At Glassworks!
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New Vietri Pesci Colorati Collection At Glassworks!
June 24, 2021
A traditional school of fish was the original inspiration for Vietri's Pesci Colorati collection. The Figural Fish Platter, pictured along with the "tail" of a serving bowl and salad plates, brings Pesci Colorati to life with layers of handpainted color. The maestro artisans also handcrafted the fish figure, using dishwasher safe Terra Bianca. Stop in at the Shadyside store to see our selection of pieces from this collection.

Click here to shop for Vietri Pesci ...
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