Dude, What's Wrong With Your Head? How Head Injury Made One Man Rich

Original: Dude, What's Wrong With Your Head? How Head Injury Made One Man Rich

Submitted by Dmitri Davydov on Sat, 2009-10-17 11:25.

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Some people need a kick in the pants before they change course. For Carlos Salgado, 41, it took a knock on the head.

In 1998, the art handler and sculptor was working at the Guggenheim Museum SoHo in New York City. One moment he was disassembling a 400-pound steel sculpture by Italian artist Fabrizio Plessi; the next he was lying on the floor. Part of the massive artwork had fallen on his head , ceramics and glass.

The Future Perfect, a design store in Brooklyn, has carried Salgado and Bettencourt's furniture since the beginning. Owner David Alhadeff is impressed with the company's evolution so far.

"They have gone from offering a simple form made out of very beautiful material to making one-of-a-kind, gallery-worthy objects," he says.


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[Via - Fortune Small Business]