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SCREECH | May 31st 2008

Ferrari S. P. A.

Ferrari is putting carbon-ceramic brakes in all its cars. Paul Markillie goes from 160kph to zero in four seconds flat ...

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ADVENTURES WITH OBJECTS | April 7th 2008

Thonet

As the first-ever "World Design Capital", Turin is exhibiting Alexander von Vegesack's personal collection of industrial design objects. Vendeline von Bredow learns what makes the director of the Vitra Design Museum so keen on the things of everyday life ... 

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"PRETTY" FURNITURE? HOW QUAINT | January 9th 2008

Maarten Baas

What's with all the ugly new chairs? The cartoonish lamps? Cliff Kuang tries to explain why someone might spend tens of thousands of dollars on a coffee table that looks like a wad of nicotine gum ...

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SOMETIMES BOLD AND ALWAYS A LITTLE GROTESQUE

Evgeny Morozov catches up with "Helvetica", a documentary film about the history of the near-ubiquitous typeface, and finds it to be a persuasive story in miniature about the globalisation of visual culture ...

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