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...bath, and not a luxury. Everything in the bathroom must work perfectly. When I wash my hands, my two forearms converge towards the middle of the basin, and what I want is not the vision of a rectangle, but a place to put down my soap and nailbrush-not up by my elbows but where my hands are going to be. So I design basins to converge towards the taps, the widest portion of the sides being close to the taps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Pleasures of Ponti | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

...piece." In 1934 London's Ideal Homes Exhibition included one solemn Robinson exhibit which proved a sensation: a carefully constructed, full-size Robinson house fitted with Robinson gadgets. One of them: a baby-washer made of revolving stands, one for the baby, the other carrying soap, sponge and nailbrush; the baby was washed simply by revolving the stands in opposite directions. Another convenience was a bedroom directly over a dining room so rigged that the owner could descend through the floor into a dining chair while, simultaneously, the cover over the bacon & eggs ascended to the ceiling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: W. Heath Robinson | 9/25/1944 | See Source »

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