Soy Sauce Bottle by Kenji Ekuan, 1961

Image: Businessweek
MORE: Kikkoman

Wall Cleat by Karl Zahn (Boiler Design), 2007

Image: Oboiler
MORE: Wired

Egg Chair and Swan Chair by Arne Jacobsen, 1956

Jacobsen designed both of these upholstered chairs for the SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen
Image: HiveModern
MORE: National Design Museum

Band-Aid by Earle Dickson, 1921

Image: MoMA
MORE: Inventors

E66 Wind Turbine by Sir Norman Foster (Foster & Partners), 1993-6

Designed for the German power firm Enercon
Image: Design Boom
MORE: The Times, The Independent

Cheval Mirror by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, 1900

The Cheval Mirror belongs to the bedroom suite that Mackintosh designed for the apartment where he lived with Margaret MacDonald at 120 Mains St., Glasgow.
Image: Hunterian Art Gallery
MORE: Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society

Lobster Dress by Elsa Schiaparelli, 1937

Schiaparelli designed this silk organza dress in Paris in collaboration with Salvador Dali (they also collaborated on the "Tear Dress"). It's said that Dali was disappointed when Schiaparelli wouldn't let him spread mayonnaise on the finished piece. Wallis Simpson (The Duchess of Windsor) bought the dress from Schiaparelli before her marriage to the Duke of Windsor in 1937 and posed in it for Vogue.
Image: Philadelphia Museum of Art
MORE: "Shocking! The Art and Fashion of Elsa Schiaparelli"

Tandem Sling Seating by Charles and Ray Eames, 1962

The Eameses originally designed this modular airport seating system for Chicago's O'Hare International Airport
Images: Herman Miller, Eames Office
MORE: Herman Miller

Studebaker "Champion" by Raymond Loewy, 1947

The '47 Studebaker "Champion" was the first postwar automobile produced in the United States
Image: AdClassix
MORE: Smithsonian

I Love NY logo by Milton Glaser, 1977

Image: Milton Glaser
MORE: Believer, Businessweek, Metropolis

Tree Trunk Bench by Jurgen Bey (Droog), 1999

Image: National Design Museum
MORE: Droog, NYT

Moka Express by Alfonso Bialetti, 1933

Image: Mondo Carosello
MORE: Bialetti, Critical Inquiry

American Modern dinnerware by Russell Wright, 1937

Image: Metropolitan Museum of Art
MORE: Metropolitan Museum of Art

"Green Machine" ($100 laptop) by Yves Béhar/fuseproject, 2005

Image: DeZeen
MORE: One Laptop Per Child, DeZeen

The Chair by Hans Wegner, 1949

Image: Danish-Furniture
MORE: Metropolis

Toast Racks by Christopher Dresser, 1879-1881

Image: National Design Museum
MORE: Design Boom, National Design Museum

London Tube Map by Harry Beck, 1933

Image: National Design Museum
MORE: National Design Museum

JVC Videosphere Television, c. 1970

Image: National Media Museum
More Info: Powerhouse Museum

$52 Wheelchair by Don Schoendorfer, 2004

Image: Free Wheelchair Mission
More Info: Worldchanging

Cinderella Table by Jan Verhoeven/Demakersvan, 2004-5

Image: Victoria and Albert Museum
More Info: VAM, Demakersvan

Paimio Armchair by Alvar Aalto, 1931-2

Designed for Paimio Sanitorium (a tuberculosis hospital) in Finland
Image: Victoria and Albert Museum
More Info: Design Boom, MoMA

Getting Started...

Henry Dreyfuss redesigned the historic 20th Century Limited in a streamlined, modern vocabulary for New York Central Railroad in 1938. I have borrowed the name of my favorite train for this site, which I would like to use basically as an inventory of things I love. I hope that this jumble of beautiful, innovative, or otherwise meaningful works will provide an interesting sketch of modern industrial/product design history for my friends, family, etc.