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The Design Dozen: Newsweek Picks the Most Stylish ProductsIn a special package on design, Newsweek's editors reveal their picks for the most stylish products, places and people of 2005, and profile a movement away from cookie-cutter goods and toward the cutting edge.
"The Design Dozen" lists 12 top items to covet, including the Mario Batali basting brush, the Krups espresso maker, the redesigned Polaroid camera, Target's new color-coded prescription bottles, and bamboo plates, fabric and flooring.
Other highlights of the special section, which appears in the May 23 issue of Newsweek.
Contributing Editor Chee Pearlman reports that at this year's Milan Furniture Fair, an annual mecca of design innovation and bravado, the message from international design gurus amounted to a backlash against cold, slick, mass-produced and mass-marketed consumer goods-and an embrace of personality, authentic materials and the very process of creating.
Senior Editor Cathleen McGuigan profiles Pritzker Prize winner Thom Mayne, who is the first American to earn architecture's highest honor in 14 years.
The radical L.A. architect, known for his edgy designs and a rebellious career outside the architectural mainstream, has a surprising new client: the government.
So has the establishment finally caught up to Mayne-or has his work mellowed as it's matured? The answer is a little of both, McGui
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