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From the mundane to the divine, some of the best-designed products of all time

  • Written by Catherine Anderson, Assistant Professor of Interior Architecture and Design, George Washington University
imagePoul Henningsen's Artichoke Lamp, viewed from below at London's Park Plaza Hotel.Doc Searls/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

A well-designed product equally elevates form and function. It is pleasing to look at, easy to use and solves a common problem.

We reached out to five design professors and posed the following question: What’s the...

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