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Furniture designer Fred Lowen (above, left, with one of his craftsmen) made his name fronting the trailblazing furniture company Fler, selling the company in 1966 and becoming one of its employees. But in 1968, ‘Puppet on a String’ hit the charts and the song’s sentiments had him yearning to be his own boss again. Lowen

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