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Single-layer clear cases are usually pretty plain (and that’s the way I like them), but Ghostek decided to spruce the Covert 2 up a little bit. The oversized corners are a welcome touch, as they probably absorb a lot of shock, but the same can’t be said for the rest of the case. The triangle pattern over the glass portion and on the lower sides isn’t ugly, but it’s not particularly useful and I think the case would look better without it. I’m also not a huge fan of the large branding, of which there are two instances on the back.

The master for the shell mold is also designed and manufactured using CAD/CAM. Each mold must be custom made for each helmet design and shell size.

His discussions with Cook were prompted by thoughts of iOS7, but it would have been as clear to him as it was to Alan Dye, a creative director at Apple, that the company’s industrial designers were at risk of losing some of their control over its products. As an iPad “becomes a piece of glass,” Dye said recently, the experience of the software becomes as important as the hardware, “or more important.” The watch would include some grand industrial-design gestures—gold hardened in a novel process of compression; a buckle secured with forty-odd magnets—but across much of Apple’s product range such opportunities were becoming rarer.

“They play together, they work together, and they protect each other,” Robert Brunner, the former Apple design chief, later said of the team. At one of our meetings, Ive reminded me of a short article that Bono wrote about him in Time. It said, “To watch him with his workmates in the holy of holies, Apple’s design lab, or on a night out is to observe a very rare esprit de corps. They love their boss, and he loves them. What the competitors don’t seem to understand is you cannot get people this smart to work this hard just for money.” Ive, Bono’s friend, described these comments as “shockingly perceptive”—which is an unusual response to praise, even shared praise. But the strength, and the professional advantage, of the team’s solidarity is one of Ive’s recurring themes. He was determined to counter “spiteful,” if infrequent, claims that the studio’s spirit is not as collegial as it looks. Doug Satzger, who left Apple in 2008, and now runs industrial design at Intel, told Fast Company that “Jony has a very political agenda when it comes to his positioning within the company. He would tell me, ‘Anytime you meet with Steve, I gotta know.’ ” (Satzger declined to comment.)

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I was walking around with Richard Howarth and Julian Hönig; they stared, slightly dazed, at people handling objects that only they had handled for years. When a product demonstrator gave me his pitch, they interrupted with design footnotes. “The materials in this thing are insane,” Howarth said. People, he noted, were saying that the watch’s face was made of “sapphire glass”: “It’s not glass, it’s sapphire crystal—completely different structure. And then the stainless steel is super-hardened. And the zirconia ceramic on the back is co-finished with sapphire as well.” He added, “This would cost so much money if a different company was making it—Rolex or something. It would be a hundred grand or something.”

Arte Povera isn’t the only ghost of midcentury modernism inhabiting the project — there’s the twee cafe, with its Formica furniture and veneered wood paneling; the new tower restaurant, with its furniture bought at auction from New York’s Four Seasons; the cinema, with chairs imported from ’70s-era Milanese movie houses; and the sun-baked, deeply shadowed squares, conjuring up de Chirico.

London PrideDan and Dean Caten of Dsquared2; dsquared2.com. Interiors by Dimore Studio; dimorestudio.eu. Josef Frank floor lamps (in background) from Svenskt Tenn; svenskttenn.se. Pendant by Stilnovo; stilnovousa.com. Lampada 048 pendants by Dimore Studio; dimorestudio.eu. Rug from Tablinvm; tablinvm.com. Alicudi stool by Dimore Studio; dimorestudio.eu. In Dean’s bedroom, on walls, panels by Phillip Jeffries (T); phillipjeffries.com. Lampada 036 ceiling lamp by Dimore Studio; dimorestudio.eu. Curtains of Adamo & Eva cotton velvet and Mademoiselle satin silk, both by Dedar (T); dedar.com. In Dan’s bedroom, custom closet and hardware by Dimore Studio. In bath, custom sink, sink stand, and Applique 079 sconces; all by Dimore Studio. Cover, On walls, Jungle Weave panels by Dimore Studio; dimorestudio.eu. Serge Mouille Two-Arm sconces from Design Within Reach; dwr.com. On bed, leopard-print pillows of Leopardo silk-cotton velvet by Luigi Bevilacqua (T); luigi-bevilacqua.com. Stools from Dimore Gallery; dimoregallery.eu. On sofa by Cini Boeri for Arflex (T); arflex.it; velvet by Jane Churchill (T); cowtan.com. Consolle 021 table by Dimore Studio; dimorestudio.eu. On Chinotto armchair (in foreground) by Luigi Caccia Dominioni for Azucena; azucena.it; fabric by Aïssa Dione (T); aissadionetissus.com. Floor lamp by Achille Castiglioni for Flos; flos.com.

Ive’s dominance wasn’t immediate. Michael Ive recalled a conversation he had with his son in 2001: “ ‘It’ll have a thousand songs, Dad.’ I said, ‘Who wants a thousand songs?’ He said, ‘You’ll see.’ ” Tony Fadell, a former Apple engineer who can take much of the credit for the iPod’s functionality, was recently quoted by Fast Company as saying, “We gave it to Jony to skin it.” That is, Ive’s contribution was to combine, as elegantly as possible, elements decided largely by engineers and others: a battery, a disk drive, an L.C.D. screen, a track wheel. Fadell went on to found Nest, which was later bought by Google; he recently took charge of Google Glass. His phrase may have been strategically irreverent—“We’ve never skinned anything,” Tim Cook told me in response—but it contained at least a partial truth. Ive gave the music player an irresistible white-and-silver form, causing a generation of designers to endure clients asking for the “iPod version” of this or that. (Richard Seymour, in London, recalled a meeting about the iPod of moisturizers.) But the industrial-design studio was not yet the company’s central workshop.

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I was sent a case for my Pixel 2 XL carved out of cherry. As soon as I took the case out of its packaging, I was greeted with a strong whiff of the classic wood smell that I can still smell on it today. Putting my phone in took less fanfare than I’d imagined; all it took was pushing the phone straight into the case, at which point it’s held in by friction from the suede lining. This is necessary since wood can’t flex as much as plastic. However, this also means that if you drop your phone facedown, it could be slightly forced out of the case into the ground since the lip doesn’t really wrap around the front, even if it does provide adequate clearance for a glass screen protector.

The Rugged Armor is one of Spigen’s newer product lines. These cases are easily identifiable by the two strips of faux-carbon fiber on the top and bottom. But while they’re simple for the most part, that’s all most people really need. If you just need a case (and maybe a little bit of added carbon fiber flair), the affordable Rugged Armor is a great choice.