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I really enjoy visiting factories and seeing firsthand how products are made — it’s always amazing, awe-inspiring and fantastic.

Inside, the Velar has a cabin that’s has stylish as the exterior. A pair of 10-inch stacked displays dominates the front occupants’ view. The one of top is for navigation, media and phone duties. The lower one shows the climate control and Terrain Response functions. Folks sit in comfy looking seats, and Land Rover is offering an interesting option there. In addition to the usual leather choices, customers can order Dapple Grey woolen upholstery as a sustainable alternative.

Much credit here goes to him. He oversaw every inch of construction and it shows. Elevator cabs clad in backlit slabs of rose and green onyx suggest medieval reliquaries. I am told blacksmiths from a tiny shop outside Milan hand-tooled the restaurant’s exquisite bar, sliding doors and custom-embossed the anodized aluminum panels on the terraces that look like expensive Lego pieces.

“We left 16 seats in there,” Darwin said. “I do have the ability to add four more if we need to and run with 20 people.”

“Garages have always been way down on the pecking order when to comes to renovations, but now they are moving up,” he said.

Mr. Kapres explains that the new profiles were conceived in response to a flood of requests for a more traditional, beaded profile and a smaller finish moulding for covering joints between ceiling boards and walls. “This is only the beginning,” he says. “Our conversations with contractors, designers, architects and distributors constantly spark ideas for new profiles and colors.

You wouldn’t know the DualPro is a dual-layer case unless you looked at it closely. Unlike with other two-layer cases, the DualPro’s seams are very tight, and the case doesn’t try to look tough. The similarity in color between the two layers doesn’t hurt, either. The bottom layer is made of silicone, and the top is a hard plastic with a soft-touch coating. That coating makes the DualPro comfortable to hold, though it does yield fingerprints more easily than other cases. Overall, though, this is a premium-feeling case.

In the Arthurian legend, the wizard Merlin put the sword in the stone. Mr. Koolhaas must be Merlin, I suppose. That makes Miuccia Prada, the Lady of the Lake.

It takes a lot of skill to apply a decal to the very complex curved surface of a motorcycle helmet and, of course, the surface must be perfectly prepared. The decal must be carefully applied and all of the air bubbles removed or the entire helmet will be ruined after it is painted.

Ive had been in charge for two and a half years when the iMac appeared, in the summer of 1998. Jobs later took much of the credit for its conception, although most other accounts, including Ive’s, suggest that the studio had come up with something quite like the iMac before his return. According to Ive, Jobs said, “Make it lickable.” (Craig Federighi, the senior vice-president of software engineering, attended a meeting where executives were shown a late iMac prototype. “Jony was showing off the case,” he recalled. “Steve was poking at the seams, and turning to Jony: ‘Maybe we could do something with the edge.’ ”) The computer’s design had the giddiness of a pardoned prisoner. At Braun, Dieter Rams had relieved consumer electronics of the need to pose as furniture. A radio could be a box. Apple’s instinct, at this moment, was to do the reverse: to domesticate a machine still largely associated with technical tasks and the workplace. (A few years earlier, in a concept design for an all-in-one computer, Ive had hidden its screen behind credenza doors, which is about as close as hardware comes to a quacking ringtone.) The computer, first sold in food-dye blue, had a handle, and curves that cheerfully acknowledged its unwieldy main component, a cathode-ray tube.

The Exec 2 is a good idea with some added flair in the form of a fabric back and a leather pocket, but it’s ultimately a usability nightmare. The cards are difficult to take out, the pocket takes up so much space that you can’t even feel the fabric back, and all of this makes the case extremely thick. If you have skinny jeans and struggled to fit the phone itself in your pockets, good luck with this monstrosity. It’s a shame that the fabric back and tactile buttons were used on a case that isn’t nicer overall. It comes in black, brown, pink, purple, red, and silver.

"I’m a football guy, and I believe in moving the chains. I believe in first downs. … Incremental improvement is better than no improvement at all," he said. "We’ve produced a product that will move the needle. But yet we are unwilling to take that final affirmative vote to move it across the finish line and put it into the hands of leadership in the bodies of the House and Senate. It’s like the old saying of wetting oneself in a dark suit. You have a really warm feeling, but nobody notices. That’s precisely where we are at this moment."