Founder Files: Handmade Baskets, Gold-Dipped Bowls & a Blueberry Grunt
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I recently visited my friend Deborah Needleman, who made an inspiring career change a half-dozen years ago. Deborah created Domino magazine, then ran the Wall Street Journal’s style magazine, and later headed up T Magazine at the New York Times. In a surprise move, she left the Times to learn traditional techniques for making baskets. She studied intensively with leading basket makers in Denmark, England, Spain, and France, then began making her own work, which she now sells.