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...size refrigerators are growing 10% a year. And many are sold by U.S. firms. Says General Electric spokesman Terry Dunn: "Americans take big fridges for granted, but in Europe it's like owning a BMW or a Jag." Market research led GE to pitch its offerings to local tastes: stainless-steel finishes for the British and Dutch, warm colors for the Italians, artsy images for the French and Spanish...
...fluffing the nest." The grill has entered the world of luxury goods, status symbols, showmanship and precision performance. Kalamazoo, a small company in Michigan, sells its customized sculptural grills largely for their beauty. Boris Yeltsin has one at his dacha, according to the company. It's no accident that stainless steel--functional, low maintenance and totally showy--has become the metal du jour for all early 21st century grills. And where luxury items go, the mass market follows: Coleman released a stainless-steel grill this year...
...style grid system for streets in London, has taken to carrying a compass to find his way around town. Now he can look slightly less conspicuous standing on Piccadilly trying to find Regent Street. Hermès cleverly found a way to hide a compass beneath the watch's stainless steel face. It's the second recent hit for Hermès, which has been making straps since the 1920s. In 1999 a double wrap strap became a fetish for fashion editors. A new version will debut this fall...
Feel cramped in your SUV? Relief is at hand in the eight-ton, 9-ft.-tall MaxiMog Global Expedition Vehicle, designed by Bran Ferren, and now featured in the high-tech "Workspheres" exhibit at New York City's Museum of Modern Art. Crafted of stainless steel on a modified Mercedes-Benz Unimog truck chassis, the MaxiMog has a 360-h.p. engine. The vehicle is street-legal in the U.S. and Europe, yet it can ford a 6-ft.-deep stream and climb a 45[degree] slope. For a mere $500,000 to $800,000, you can order a customized Maximog...
...inaugural exhibit of Vienna's new Kunsthalle, and then on to Zurich's Migros Museum and then to New York. Normally it leaves no viewer unmoved. Called Cloaca, it consists of some $200,000 worth of chemical beakers, electric pumps and plastic tubing arrayed on a row of antiseptic stainless steel tables. When Cloaca is on exhibit, an attendant climbs the metal staircase at one end twice a day to offer up a good solid meal to the machine. The food is "chewed" by a garbage disposal before passing on to the first beaker, where it is squirted with pepsin...