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According to Pearlman, the haute-casual dining trend also helps restaurateurs run bigger and more successful businesses. Constructing interiors out of hard surfaces makes them easier (and thus cheaper) to clean. Eschewing ornate decor, linens, table settings, and dishware makes for fewer items to wash or replace. Reducing table service means fewer employees and thus lower overhead. And as many writers have noted, loud restaurants also encourage profitable dining behavior. Noise encourages increased alcohol consumption and produces faster diner turnover. More people drinking more booze produces more revenue. Knowing this, some restaurateurs even make their establishments louder than necessary in an attempt to maximize profits.

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If you do not know the exact value of each cost, you could enter an estimated percentage based on the cost of goods.

The wall lights have been custom made in brass, a leather band and a glass globe that appears to be floating. The raw materials of pinewood, chipboard and birch ply are softened with delicate cut-glass and brass lights, raw silk lampshades, and large bevelled mirrors that make you feel like you have entered a sleek yesterday lounge, sans the bling and glamour.

MILAN — The lambent new tower of art galleries Rem Koolhaas and his Rotterdam-based firm, OMA, have designed for the Prada Foundation is a chameleon.

Apple’s designers still visit factories, but a final prototype part from Cupertino is not the start of a conversation; it’s the part. Ive gave me a tour of the area in the studio behind the glass, where, beyond the milling machines, there’s also a color lab. He said, “Years ago, you thought you’d fulfilled your responsibility, as a designer, if you could accurately define the form”—in drawings or a model. Now, Ive said, “our deliverable just begins with form.” The data that Apple now sends to a manufacturer include a tool’s tracking path, speed, and appropriate level of lubricant. Ive noted that the studio’s prototyping expertise creates the theoretical risk of beautiful dumb ideas. “There are some people who can draw something that’s fundamentally ugly, but draw it—hint at detailing—in such a way that it’s seductive.” Three-dimensional models could be equally misleading. “What we try to do is see beyond our ability to implement, beyond our ability to detail.”

Absorptive design found its way first into schools and offices, where acoustics products were marketed as essential to creating quieter interiors and thus more efficient and less distraction-prone workers (or students). These products were advertised as “sound-conditioning” devices that would purify an environment of “unnatural” sounds. In catalogs for commercial and home interiors, sound-absorptive surfaces were linked directly to comfort, sophistication, and luxury.

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Painters, carpenters, plumbers and electricians crawled over the units, sprinting rather than walking to complete a punch list of repairs to 45 apartments at a rate of 10 a week. 

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In the case of the Pocophone, its biggest selling point is that it provides exactly the kind of performance you’d expect from a $1,000 flagship for the cost of one of those lower-end devices. There’s also some liquid cooling technology to ensure heat dissipation is a cut above most other phones. What all of this results in is a phone that packs a punch that is way above its class and is simply fast and fluid, regardless of what you throw at it.

The XSLATE L10 does have a fairly large number of exterior openings for all of its slots, ports, connectors, and batteries. That means a large number of seals that must be in perfect condition, and protective doors that must have intact seals and must be closed carefully. Xplore knows that and, in response, sealed all of the unit’s ports from the inside. That way, frequently used protective doors can remain open and accommodate cabling while still providing full sealing.