Rashaidah veils are traditional face coverings worn by women of the Rashaida community in Sudan and Eritrea. Made from dark fabric, they are densely embroidered with silver thread, beads and sometimes seed pearls. Some feature a vertical row of coins known as tears.
The battoulah is a traditional face covering worn by women around the Persian Gulf and in southern Iran. Although it often resembles polished metal, it is typically made from treated fabric shaped around the eyes and nose.
Prattware puzzle pipes are English ceramic objects made from the mid-18th century onward, distinguished by their elaborately coiled and intertwined forms. Some contain several meters of handmade clay tubing folded into a piece barely longer than a hand.
Leichtbau Maier is a mostly unknown German car brand from the beginning of the twentieth century. The engineer Friedrich Eugen Maier from Berlin drafted and built in the 1930s at least one car prototype and succeeded in bringing this vehicle on the road.
Hosea Hayden was a furniture designer. Hosea Hayden stands at the nexus of self-taught genius as a practical tool of American individuality and self-praise, and its turn toward singular, idiosyncratic creativity. He descended from a family of farmers and shipbuilders who fought in the Revolutionary War and migrated from Massachusetts to Ohio and Indiana in the early 1800s. Hayden starting making unusual chairs in 1883; the first is marked in memory of the one-hundredth year of the “burth” of his father, Stephen. Hayden made more than one dozen tripod folding chairs of his own construction and design, each distinctive, each a veritable journal of his beliefs and observations related through drawings and words scratched into every surface like an errant schoolboy.
Indian Larry was an American motorcycle builder and artist, stunt rider, and biker. He first became known as Indian Larry in the 1980s when he was riding the streets of New York City on a chopped Indian motorcycle. Respected as an old school chopper builder, Larry sought greater acceptance of choppers being looked upon as an art form. He became interested in hot rods and motorcycles at an early age and was a fan of Von Dutch and Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, whom he would later meet in California.
The Frankfurt kitchen is considered an important point in domestic architecture. It is also thought to be the forerunner of modern fitted kitchens because it was the first kitchen in history built after a unified concept: low-cost design that would enable efficient work. It was designed in 1926 by Austrian architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky for architect Ernst May's social housing project New Frankfurt in Frankfurt, Germany. Some 10,000 units were built in the late 1920s in Frankfurt.
The gyro monorail is a single rail land vehicle that uses the gyroscopic action of a spinning wheel to overcome the inherent instability of balancing on top of a single rail.
The Bond Bug is a wedge-shaped microcar, with a lift-up canopy and side screens instead of conventional doors.
The Hustler is a unique, modular automobile designed by British industrial designer William Towns and produced by his company, Interstyl, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Best known for its unconventional aesthetic and versatility, the Hustler epitomized Towns' vision of a practical yet distinctive vehicle that stood apart from traditional car designs.