Amanda Erickson

Spring 2011 -- (Sidebar article for Steve Walton is Flying High) 

Steve Walton doesn’t just build planes—he flies them too.
 

Spring 2011 -- Steve Walton may well owe his big break to a Saudi prince.
 

Fall 2009 -- About halfway through our interview, Michael Landrum gets a call. It’s from a job applicant who wants to know about a position opening up. “What would my title be?” the caller asks. “What responsibilities would I be expected to take on?”

Bill Mensching has aged a painting four hundred years, created a gigantic glass mural for a hotel in Las Vegas, and shipped the makings of a neo-classical Catholic church from New York to California.  But he was momentarily stumped by his latest assignment: transforming 150 square feet of canvas into silk.

Ask Jeannette Claudine Romeu what she does, and you’ll get a collection of answers. The fifth-generation musician is by turns a pianist, a drummer, a D.J., a painter, a writer, a philanthropist and a teacher. Romeu’s biggest challenge has always been honing her focus. “There are so many things I love,” Romeu explained. “It is difficult for me to do only one at a time.”

For a long time, Samantha Fountain had one mission—figure out a way to allow women to pee like men.

If the great cities of the world were personified as women, you might think of Paris as fearlessly avant-garde. New York is, obviously, a well-coiffed bohemian. And Washington? Well, Washington is the uptight younger sister who hasn’t quite figured out how to look stylish and professional. She dons colorless, conservative suits that fall far below the knee (you don’t want to attract the wrong kind of attention in this city).