"It is beautiful and I love it, but it's an unnecessary nonimprovement."

"When I was a kid, we got a tour of the local paper. The whole process of pasting up the pages, photographing them, burning plates from the big negatives and running the hulking, inky press really got to me. Eventually I worked at that paper, and a new crop of cub scouts came through for the same tour, to watch us numbly assemble the pages on our (7 year old) macs in Quark, and then get shot down to the clean plate room where the plates were spat almost directly from the platemaking machine to the web press. Said one ultra-perceptive kid, bubble clearly burst: "Oh. So it's kinda like our printer at home. Just bigger"Sigh."

""Their Unson retails for $2,239. Design Within Reach sells Juhl's original for $8,950."          Should something designed half a century ago still be accessible only to the wealthy? And I've always wondered: is Design Within Reach's name meant to be ironic?"