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Opposing gay and transgender rights was frequently a focus of his efforts. In one Illinois school district, Mr. Uihlein bankrolled a school board candidate who fought a move allowing transgender students in girls’ locker rooms.

Heatherwick attended college in Manchester, and then pursued a graduate degree in furniture design at the Royal College of Art, in London. In the fall of 1993, at the start of his final year, Terence Conran, who founded Habitat, the British furniture chain that popularized a modernist look, and who later founded London’s Design Museum, came to speak to students. Heatherwick introduced himself. (Whenever Heatherwick describes this encounter, he emphasizes grievance over good fortune; at an event at the Parsons School of Design, he said, “My evil professor wouldn’t let me meet him. . . . I had to run down the stairs—the fire stairs—to speak to him.”) Conran, impressed by Heatherwick, invited him to build his graduate-thesis design in a workshop at his seventeenth-century manor house in Berkshire. That spring, Heatherwick lived in Conran’s home and made an eighteen-foot-high gazebo out of hundreds of strips of laminated birch. They became friends, and with Conran’s encouragement Heatherwick quickly set up a commercial studio. Conran has called Heatherwick “the Leonardo da Vinci of our times”; he introduced Heatherwick to Lumley. The birch gazebo now stands in Conran’s garden. A few years ago, James Dyson, the vacuum-cleaner entrepreneur, dislodged the top of it while landing a helicopter on the lawn; it has since been repaired.

Joanna Lumley, the British actress who starred in “Absolutely Fabulous,” is a friend of Heatherwick’s, and often refers to him, fondly, as a child. She has said that, after his early successes, Londoners began asking, “What can this brilliant boy do next?” Speaking on a panel in 2014, she called him an “extraordinary and brilliant boy.” Heatherwick is forty-eight, employs nearly two hundred people, and has two children. (He is separated from their mother.) But he projects an air of otherworldliness and innocence. His hair is worn tousled—with a curl or two dangling over his forehead—and his wardrobe is oriented toward very loose pants, baggy white shirts, and vests. He gives the impression of a child apprentice in Tolkien’s Middle-earth.

Norman Gimbel, an Oscar and Grammy-winning composer whose lyrics graced hit songs such as Roberta Flack’s “Killing Me Softly with His Song” and Jim Croce’s “I Got a Name,” died at the age of 91 on December 19 at his longtime home in Montecito, Calif. His death was confirmed by BMI, which paid tribute on [...]

Days later, a second statement was released, offering insight into the cause of death, which was never confirmed, and seeming to imply that he’d taken his own life. "Our beloved Tim was a seeker, a fragile artistic soul searching for answers to existential questions. An over-achieving perfectionist who travelled and worked hard at a pace that led to extreme stress," the statement issued by his family began. "When he stopped touring, he wanted to find a balance in life to be happy and be able to do what he loved most—music. He really struggled with thoughts about Meaning, Life, Happiness. He could not go on any longer. He wanted to find peace. Tim was not made for the business machine he found himself in; he was a sensitive guy who loved his fans but shunned the spotlight."

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Reporting was contributed by Nicholas Confessore, Jonathan Martin and Kenneth P. Vogel. Rachel Shorey contributed research.

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