It is a short walk on a wheelchair friendly paved path to a knoll overlook.
As the boats pull up to the dock, an Asian man wearing a yellow-and-white rain coat crouches on a knoll, staring out at the boats.
Each house was set off on a knoll or well back from the street, with stands of lean trees dividing the properties just the sort of old establishment solidity that suited me.
After a few minutes, the Bull placed Max atop a grassy knoll, and the beasts gathered around, looking up at him expectantly.
Across the garden from the house is a small building, a casino, on a man-made knoll, which gives the illusion of a hilly topography while blocking sunlight glaring off the water beyond.
Guests are given a tour, then outfitted in Barbour jackets and left-hand gloves. (In the old days, the right hand was your "knife hand, " and thus left uncovered.) And off they're sent to a big, grassy knoll fringed by woodland, to hunt for a stuffed rabbit.
He later moved to Paris as a consultant to Knoll International.
That doesn't mean they're easy to spot, though: Chinese conceptualist Song Dong's contribution to Documenta is "The Doing Nothing Garden, " a 160-foot-long grassy knoll in Karlsaue Park whose innards are a mound of trash.
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So what separates a big pharmaceutical company like AstraZeneca from a small one like Knoll isn't just how well it markets its drugs, but how new those drugs are.
The 6-bedroom, 4.5-bath Vineyard Knoll Estate is a ranch-style home located just two miles outside Glen Ellen with views of the valley and surrounding vineyards.
Last year Humanscale's revenue from the Freedom chair jumped another 30%. (Its gross margin hovers at 50% or so, compared with 30% for Steelcase.) This despite a memo circulated to hundreds of furniture wholesalers by Knoll and another chairmaker explaining that they regarded selling the products from Humanscale, a serious competitor, the equivalent of treason.
Ian McDonald and Kerry Knoll, both 48, had a good thing going with Glencairn Gold, founded in 1987.
Knoll: Somehow we managed to create a huge mass-marketing industry out of online, so there has to be a way.
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After an attempted corporate raid by British financier James Goldsmith in 1986, the company piled on debt, Knoll said, and was left in a poor position to react to the globalization of the auto industry.
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"We'll either personally do a rights offering or, perhaps, sell another part of one of our cases, " says Knoll.
After an unsatisfying bit of online research, Kelly finds an answer provided by John Knoll, co-creator of Photoshop and Oscar-winning Visual Effects Director, who he met at a party.
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