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He looks too young to have achieved so much, but Barclay Butera insists he was born into the business. “I got the creativity from my mother, a designer, and the business instincts from my father, who was in publishing,” he says. With a degree in political science and economics, Barclay started his own case goods company in Los Angeles in 1993. Now with more than 100 employees, Barclay Butera Inc. includes three retail Collection showrooms, two Barclay Butera Home brand to-the-trade showrooms (in Los Angeles and in New York’s D&D Building), and a manufacturing plant in Los Angeles. His furniture is distributed by 300-plus retailers, and the brand still grows: In 2008, Kravet Collections will release his line of textiles.