The Sharper Image: Creating Better Desires

When I became a man, I put away childish things and started frequenting The Sharper Image. Founder Richard Thalheimer makes it far easier to spend money than the Schwarz of my youth; rather than a 25-mile hike into Manhattan, The Sharper Image comes to me—with 95 retail stores, 63 million catalogs, special e-mail offers and a Web site that is accessible from any hotel room in the world.