Perhaps one of the more interesting facets of innovation, despite advances in technology and engineering, is the reliance on successes of yore. Nature’s unflagging way of providing the most effective solution to a design problem continues to amaze.
Canvas Sails / USS R-14 in 1921
If the main purpose of an ashtray is to hide cigarette butts so you always think it’s your first one, then Arne Jacobsen (1902-1971) did a good job. I like it when form follows function. Jacobsen is mainly known for his chairs, but he also designed about twenty household products for the Danish company Stelton.
Designed by Arne Jacobsen in 1967
While a bikini-clad, shot-chugging, glut of Spring Breaking tequilas dominate the popular imagination, there exists no greater thrill than the grand daddy drinking, sipping-not-shooting experience of them all – mezcal.
There has been much noise about the possible disappearance of the honey bee in parts of the United States, and the hoopla is certainly for good reason. The bee, as the saying goes, is busy — being an essential cog in the natural cycle of life’s growth and decay. The honey bee is an industrious multi-tasker whose absence would most certainly be missed. Among their indespensible contributions to the environment is a remarkedly useful byproduct that many take for granted — beeswax.
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Book Darts
The advent of Kindle may be a boon for techies and a fine way to carry around a library in your luggage – but it certainly takes some of the romance out of reading. What about the pleasure of turning a page, the dusty, nostalgic smell of old paper, the scattered notes and underlining left behind by past readers? If you’re like me, you like nothing better than the feel of a heavy hardcover or a tattered paperback and half the joy of reading is gazing triumphantly at the stacks of conquered pages against the wall. Book darts are another bit of class and old school style that come in handy, the perfect accessory for the avid reader.
Bronze Book Dart
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