Examples of enduring good design?

[Baggy]

After a few of these i had designs on the wife.

 

[CopperBrompton]

to emphasize how different the interpretation of place can be depending on what you are looking at and for.

Agreed, but I generally aim to look for beauty rather than ugliness.

 

[terry huckle]

Thread started off with the art deco...very much a favourite period of mine.

Here`s Miss Sonya, an aircraft from the period which was parked outside the Museum of Flight in Seattle when I was there (2006). Still looks fabulous to me

 

[threebikesmcginty]

My Rotring 600 propelling pencil (0.5) - use it every day at work. Lovely!

 

[Baggy]

Agreed, but I generally aim to look for beauty rather than ugliness.

Also agreed - and I also think many parts of the Tube are beautiful, Canary Wharf escalators being particularly pleasing:

 

[rich p]

Bloody hell, if FM and Dell keep posting can we have this thread moved back to P&L

 

[alecstilleyedye]

the lockheed constellation was a beautiful old bird…

 

[Speicher]

There's a refurbished one of these flying between Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar. All polished aluminium - gorgeous.

I am sure I flew back from Ireland in that in 1998.

 

[CopperBrompton]

I am sure I flew back from Ireland in that in 1998.

Were you flying Lie-n-Scare?

 

[just jim]

The Flying Disc:

 

[Speicher]

Were you flying Lie-n-Scare?

No, I think it was Air Line Gus.

 

[Proto]

Gresley's A4 locomotives, since we're on the subject of streamlined trains:

Ok, I suppose it only "endured" until the late 1960s, but has anyone ever seen anything which combines form and function so perfectly?

Well, if it was so good, why did he not bother with the streamlining on the later classes of pacifics?

 

[Proto]

Has anyone mentioned the Anglepoise lamp? I've got an ancient one at home on my desk. Like this but black, early sixties I think.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Well, if it was so good, why did he not bother with the streamlining on the later classes of pacifics?

Because the war got in the way and fashions changed. Streamlining was very much a 1930s "Race to the North" thing; after the war the railways were underfunded and overworked and neither the LMS nor the LNER had the resources to resume their streamlining programmes.
The reason I chose the A4, incidentally, was because the streamlining was an integral part of the design, and it worked. Stanier's "Coronation" class, while equally good looking, were tricky to drive because the smoke was blown into the drivers' vision, and the streamlining was a bolt on extra which was removed in the 1940s.

 

[sheddy]

So that what an SPD looks like ! Was this the original Steely Dan ?