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Living on the breadline for TV show

Photo: © ITV  |
Photo: © ITV |
By her own admissions, it was a world away from the “glamour of Los Angeles where I now live what is, admittedly, a very privileged life.”
| by Jenny Feldman |

B ut when Melanie Brown was invited to take part in ITV documentary 7 Days On The Breadline – to highlight the plight of deprived families in recession-hit Britain – she felt it was a project she couldn’t turn down.

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Art & Design

Design for Living

Charlie Ferrer and Ana Meier on a bench from their debut collection at their Los Angeles workshop.
Charlie Ferrer and Ana Meier on a bench from their debut collection at their Los Angeles workshop.
These days, most entrepreneurial Ivy Leaguers spend their early postcollege years developing Web-based social networks or iPhone applications. Charlie Ferrer (University of Pennsylvania ’06) and Ana Meier (Harvard ’04), however, opted to work on something more tangible.
| by Marshall Heyman |

Their furniture company, Meier/Ferrer, launches in October at New York’s Paul Kohn Design with nine pieces, among them the bleached walnut–and–polished nickel Katherine vanity, designed with input from Meier’s mother, and the lacquered walnut Rosemary console table, commissioned by Ferrer’s.