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American playwright David Mamet once described the Aga as "the best of things British," and, together with the old Rolex Explorer and the Land Rover, as among those things that are "perfect-of-their-kind." This may seem extravagant praise for a cast-iron stove that has not changed in appearance since it was designed 70 years ago. But Aga owners, who number some 500,000 worldwide, tend to even greater eulogies when it comes to their "stove-oven-cooktop-heater," as Mamet styled it. "The Aga is part of the family. It's the heart of my home," says...
...life? A stove? For those uninitiated in the Aga experience, the temptation is to say, "Puh-leeze." But as Mamet's description implies, the Aga is more than just a stove. For one thing, it is never turned off. Fueled by wood or coal in the past, but now powered by oil, gas or electricity, the 500-kg Aga remains permanently hot, ready to roast a turkey, boil a kettle or bake a cake, day or night. Its brightly colored enamel surface also emanates a constant gentle warmth which, like any hearth, tends to draw people to it. Some owners...
...recent gift of $2.5 in endowment funds from His Highness The Aga Khan '58 will fund The Aga Khan Professorship of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism in Islamic Societies at the Graduate School of Design...
...Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of Shia Ismaili Muslims, also gave $1.5 million in 1979 to establish the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at the GSD. In 1987, he contributed to funding for GSD's Center for Urban Development Studies at the Harvard Design School...
...Aga Khan's gifts, focusing on the Islamic world, are typical of many gifts from foreign donors--focused on an area of study with which the donor has a national or religious affinity...