Eminent designers were there to offer critiques.
It may be rather a surprise to find one of today's most eminent designers with a soft spot for such a kitschy contraption.
When the Italian lighting company Flos introduced its new collection at the International Furniture Fair in Milan, which ended on Sunday, it was with a photo montage of the products' creators: 11 eminent designers posing as house painters.
In the early- and mid-20th century, two professors at the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich — first Wilhelm Ritter and then Pierre Lardy — used that broader approach and turned out such eminent designers as Robert Maillart and Christian Menn, experts in reinforced concrete, and Othmar Ammann, who worked in structural steel.
Their design chief Adrian Newey, regarded as F1's pre-eminent designer, has stepped back from his full-time role on F1 into an advising and mentoring capacity while he concentrates on other projects, believed to be Britain's America's Cup bid.
So began a long period in which S&S was the pre-eminent designer of Cup defenders.
Mr. Wilson is the acknowledged pre-eminent designer of tracks today, building in safety features, like the runoff areas at Barber, that look like sand traps on a golf course, and mixing curves, straights, angles and flats to challenge drivers.
Louis Comfort Tiffany and the Associated Artists, Pottier & Stymus, the Herter Brothers and Kimbel & Cabus are among the pre-eminent designers who created these high-style rooms, with no expense spared.
The Olmsted Brothers, sons of the eminent landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted, designed the lodge's surrounding grounds.
The eminent furniture designer Wendell Castle will turn 80 next month, and it seems everyone is celebrating.
The eminent set designer Bob Crowley provided the Las Vegas arcade that is passing for ancient Egypt (2 30).
