Among the products featured is Allium, a spherical lampshade made from peacock feather-shaped slats.
Indulgent villas come sprinkled with feather-soft pillows, divine double Jacuzzis and spacious outdoor terraces.
Yet he chronicles his travels with a wearying feather-light jocularity, prizing one-liners over lucid analysis.
These preproduction models from Samsung were feather-light, with a slightly smaller screen than the standard PalmPilot size.
And boy, it's a slender, feather-light phone with a glossy backing that come sin both black and white.
Ms Pape's tribal garment has red cloth filled with feather-covered balls extruding body parts and surrounded by insects.
The feather-bedding that required firemen on diesel engines into the 1970s is gone, and most on-board personnel work hard.
In the late 17th and early 18th centuries, golf was played mostly with long, slender wooden clubs and feather-filled balls.
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Iron clubs from the 17th to the early 19th century are rare because feather-filled balls could explode if hit inexpertly.
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The combination of the free-revving V6, a feather-light clutch and precise gear feel makes the IPL a rocket to drive.
And they are unhappy - or can be ditto - over Barnett or, more precisely, the impression that Barnett feather-beds the Scots.
At Talbot Runhof's Paris boutique on the swish Rue d'Alger last month, one feather-light jacket stood on its own on a pedestal.
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Finally, the CGI chicken has a feather-ruffling adventure in the year 2059.
And the feather-preening factories were mostly staffed with poor immigrant Jewish laborers.
They made Jesse Ventura, of feather-boa wrestling fame, the governor of Minnesota.
Dr Schmidt says that various firms are now testing his feather-based plastics for use in such things as biodegradable nappies and home insulation.
Overall, the attention to detail was conspicuous, from the feather-filled duvets and gossamer cotton sheets to heavy oak hangers in the spacious walk-in closet.
While the public areas still wear their Dorothy Draper-era, retina-stinging magenta-and-emerald floral patterns, the 682 guest rooms have flat-panel TVs, granite-and-marble bathrooms, and feather-top beds.
Perhaps the toughest public-relations exercise for Mr Prodi will be to persuade jaded Europeans that this new commission will be less feather-bedded than the last.
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Cascading velvet curtains, marquee lights, distressed hardwood and grand staircases set the illusion of an elegant 1920s theatre, while multiple stages spotlighting feather-headressed burlesque dancers complete the vintage spectacle.
The Chirac they describe lacks the degree of clear direction and application to haul a country as complex as France on to a fresh track away from its old feather-bedded, statist ways.
The bejewelled and feather-dressed Samburu tribesmen must have laughed all the way home when Italian journalist Riccardo Orizio gathered them together a decade ago and told them of his plans to turn a couple of lumpy granite outcrops in the heart of Samburu country into a luxury game lodge overlooking the searing, acacia-speckled plains of northern Kenya.
But Stein's book is fascinating (who knew there was an ostrich-feather bubble?) as well as prescient (over-reliance on credit, neglecting to diversify your assets, the belief that a commodity will never, ever lose value--sounds vaguely familiar).
Most accommodations are in highly individualized and carefully decorated freestanding cottages, decorated with original museum quality art and featuring king-size feather beds and sitting areas with wood-burning fireplaces and screened porches.
Some of the larger events ask fighters to bring non-feather pillows to mitigate the mess.
My room is fabulous: 10-foot ceilings, a plush king-size bed with feather pillows and a big high-definition television.
At Miraval, Life in Balance, guests are invited to try any number of "challenge" activities--balancing a feather on the palm of the hand, climbing (while tethered) the 25-foot Quantum Leap pole and then jumping off, learning to approach a horse and pick up its hooves.
My king-size, deliciously cozy feather bed had the most elaborate carved canopy I had ever seen--until I viewed the other rooms and realized that each is uniquely handcrafted.
It was Major General Nathaniel Coles' hat that made the boldest statement: a beaverskin chapeau de bras, with a black silk grosgrain ribbon cockade, gilt-metal eagle pin and 20-inch ostrich feather plume.
In 1848, feather balls were replaced by gutta-percha balls made from the gum of a Malaysian tree.
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