Business News of Wednesday, 14 January 2015

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After years of innovations, experiments and exhibitions, the Great Kosa Automobile Company Limited is set to begin commercial production of vehicles in Ghana.

The company, which is owned by renowned Ghanaian industrialist, Apostle Kwadwo Safo, the founder of Kristo Asafo Mission, has successfully put its new automobile assembling plant to test.

Seven sleek Kantanka-branded vehicles three 4X4 Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) and four pick-ups produced from the assembling plant at Gomoa Mpota in the Central Region, are set to hit the roads as the company stands ready to begin commercial automobile production.

According to an interior decorator of the company, Mr Kwasi Frimpong, who conducted a Daily Graphic team round the assembling plant, at the moment, the facility could produce four 4X4 SUV and four pick-up vehicles daily.

But officials of the company say in the long term, the assembling plant will produce at least 20 vehicles daily.

The assembling plant was installed in April 2014, following a collaboration with a Chinese investor.

Currently, it operates two lines one for SUV vehicles and the other for pick-up vehicles.

Mr Frimpong says there are plans to establish another plant for the production of saloon cars in the near future.

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Call Karen and Jack! Former costars Debra Messing and Eric McCormack are planning a Will & Grace reunion.

The two actors will appear on television together for the first time since Will & Grace aired its series finale in May 2006. McCormack, 51, is set to appear in an upcoming episode of the NBC dramedy The Mysteries of Laura, which is led by Messing.

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The Smash actress, 46, stars as Detective Laura Diamond in the new series. Her character is a homicide detective with the NYPD who faces additional challenges in her personal life as her ex-husband (Josh Lucas) is now her boss in the force, and she must balance work with raising their twin boys.

McCormack will make his debut in The Mysteries of Laura as Dr. Andrew Devlin, Deadline reports. His heart surgeon character is suspected of homicide after his ex-wife dies. To make things more complicated, Detective Diamond and Dr. Devlin were once engaged.

Eric McCormack as Will Truman, Debra Messing as Grace Adler in "Will & Grace" Credit: Bill Reitzel/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank

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McCormack and Messing starred opposite one another for eight years on Will & Grace. Joined by Megan Mullally as Karen Walker and Sean Hayes as Jack McFarland, the two stars played Will Truman and Grace Adler, respectively.

Messing's Grace was a lovable interior decorator with a less-than-successful dating life, who lived with her best friend, McCormack's gay lawyer character Will.

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It takes a lot of furniture to fill a 20,000-square-foot house, as Pamela Gottfried certainly knows.

And now that she has sold her lakefront house at 748 Hi-Mount Road built in 1985 by her late husband, prolific Palm Beach developer Robert W. Gottfried she also is parting with its furnishings.

Those include truckloads of items that Robert Gottfried bought specifically for the house large-scale European antiques, as well as bronzes, marble statuary, pedestals, carpets, paintings and several notable clocks.

Some items will be auctioned Monday by Auction Gallery of the Palm Beaches at its facility on Antique Row.

Other items, including fine French antiques and decorative accessories, will be liquidated during an estate sale Jan. 17 and 18 at the West Palm Beach warehouse of interior decorator and furniture designer Todd Hase.

Im downsizing, said Gottfried, who also said during a brief phone conversation that she will remain in Palm Beach, although she is finalizing her plans.

Gottfried, a real estate agent with Douglas Elliman, acted on her own behalf in Decembers $15.1 million sale of her home to seasonal Palm Beacher Barbara Swanson, who was represented by broker Lawrence Moens of Lawrence Moens Associates.

Because she is keeping very few of the homes furnishings, she asked Hase to organize the items and coordinate their dispersal.

Hase describes himself as a fan of the architectural style pioneered by Robert Gottfried during the 1960s and 70s that became known as Gottfried Regency. Gottfried houses featured classical elements, symmetrical layouts, voluminous rooms and large windows and French doors that showcase views and flood the interiors with natural light.

The builder, who died in 2007, understood that rooms in his houses could provide a grand showcase for antiques, said Hase, who has showrooms on Antique Row, as well as in New York City, Los Angeles and Southampton, N.Y.

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We would like to implore Frank and MarySkillern, the owners of a 4,250-square-foot townhouse at 127 East 62nd Street, not to sell.

The property is listed with with Douglas Ellimans Sabrina Saltiel for $9.45 million, but who other than the Skillerns, he the former CEO of American Express Centurion Bank, she an interior decoratorboth avid patrons of the artswould maintain an array of ceramic dioramas depicting Shakespearean scenes on the lighted glass shelves in the dining room? Who would keep the subterranean cabaret room, dark and shiny with marble floorsoutfitted with a PA system and a baby grandcozy with guests tapping to the tunes of Patti Lupone and Michael Feinstein, whove both performed here? Who else would hang the hallways of upper floors with original, whimsical Miros and sly Hirschfeld caricatures?

The answer is practically no one.

When we visited recently with Susan Bands, a family friend of Ms. Skillern and a broker with Marcus and Millichap who is helping with the listing, Ms. Bands shared theObservers hope that the home, whose asking price was reduced in November by $1 million, find a buyer that appreciates its current charms. For it is not just the Skillerns cultured collectibles that give the place character, and it would be a shame, we agreed, to strip away its aristocratic flourisheseven if they are a touch old-fashioned.

The stately five-story with five fireplaces, four bedrooms and a skylighted media room that opens on a cedar-plank roof deck, went up in the late 1800s. Its ornate motifs recall the wedding cake interiorsand ballgownsof DisneysBeauty and the Beast.

Made in Neo-Grec style, the home sports intricate wallpaper with repeating floral patterns, massive fluted pillars and great quantities of baroque molding and trim. There are heavy, gold-framed mirrors and hefty chandeliers. Theres a library done in red and currently lined with volumes of American history interspersed with small busts of Abraham Lincoln. One imagines the home as an ideal locale for games of hide-and-seek among a certain class of precocious, studious youngster.

None was present during our brief stay, however, but for a well-groomed, small white dog that yapped at theObserverwith the shrill admixture of pride and fear peculiar to toy breeds.

Thats enough, Gracie, Ms. Skillern told the dog, betraying a soft hint of her Southern lineage. You only need to comment.

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A Ukrainian couple, who were married 10 years ago, remarried as per Hindu tradition in a simple ceremony at a goshala (cow shelter) at Neelavar village in Udupi district on Wednesday.

A retired professional Ukrainian football player, Vitaliy Hryhorovych Reva (40), tied the knot with his wife Elena Reva, an interior decorator, in the presence of their eight-year-old daughter Vasilissa, 16 Russian and Ukrainian friends, and a few local residents.

Mr. Reva wanted to wed his wife in the Hindu custom. The couple had come to receive Ayurvedic treatment here. The wedding was arranged by Ayurveda practitioner Thanmay Goswami. The groom was dressed in a dhoti-kurta and a peta, while the bride wore a sari. The rituals were conducted by priest Manjunath.

Speaking to presspersons, Mr. Reva said he had read a lot about Indian philosophy and had even applied it in his football game. He practiced Yoga daily, which had helped improve his concentration in the game. It was my dream to get married in the Indian tradition as I had read that marriages here are done by keeping fire as messenger to god amid chanting of mantras, he said.

He had asked Mr. Goswami to arrange a traditional Indian wedding. I wished to get married in the presence of cows and in a spiritual environment, he said.

Dr. Goswami said though Mr. Reva was attracted to Indian philosophy and culture, he also loved his Ukrainian culture. When he expressed his desire for a wedding as per Indian traditions, that too, in a simple manner in rural surroundings, I decided to arrange for it, he said.

Cathiana, a friend of the Revas, said she liked the ceremony. It is very impressive, she said.

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Christmas has a peculiar relationship with winter. Its wintry December, but more than that its the holiday season. And as the trees become bare and the cloudy skies and chilling temperatures roll in, most of us dont notice it because of the lights and decorations, brightness and cheer of the holidays.

Then comes January 1st, the lights come down and we suddenly look around at how gray and somber everything is, how short the days are, how the lights all seem to have gone out.

Its part of the Seasonal Affective Syndrome SAD, says interior decorator Jason Jennings, an apt description for peoples moods this time of year.

So Jennings, who spends a good portion of the months of October and November putting up clients Christmas presentations, then turns around in January and decorates for winter. He takes down the things that scream Christmas like Santas and elves but keeps those snowflakes and icicles that remain appropriate through January and February.

His client Susan has an affinity for nature year-round, loving the big windows and broad views in her Indian Hills Estate home. She has filled the space with a neutral palette that is brightened up with natures colors, like grass green and sky blue.

Mostly, she wants to bring the outside in, and Jennings has done that, year-round, with bright, reflective surfaces that are also perfect winter choices. Shiny metal, mirrored finishes and glass bounce the sunlight around the house.

Some of that comes from the Christmas baubles that remain in the house after the Santas, stockings and sparkly reindeer are put away. He doesnt put the trees away in Susans house, though. The ribbons and angels are taken down, but the small white lights remain to sparkle up the greenery.

I love the tree standing in the living room with its white lights, Susan says. It was a Christmas tree, its a winter tree. It brings the outside in. Its light, its nature.

The snowflakes, garlands and stars that lit up the tree in December stay up all winter, too, because whats more wintry than a snowflake? Jennings asks. There are snowflakes and stars hanging from chandeliers, and garlands placed in bowls and dishes. The garlands lend that wintry evergreen mood to the house.

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