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John Mayall’s ecological message in “Nature’s disappearing” from 1970 is still relevant today
Jack Lemmon using a tennis racket as a strainer in Billy Wilder’s The Apartment
A fictional version of the Hula Hoop invention in Joel and Ethan Coen’s movie “The Hudsucker Proxy”
“The Chairs”, Lydia Davis’ example of narrative imagination through object observation
Superflux shows us the frictions between an elderly man and his smart home in “Uninvited Guests”
Lucy complains about Linus’ vacuuming noise in Charles Schulz’s Peanuts comic strip
Cary Grant having trouble with door handles and sleeping positions in Howard Hawk’s “I Was A Male War Bride”
Cary Grant having trouble with signage and sidecars in Howard Hawk’s “I Was A Male War Bride”
The manufacturing process of matches in Aki Kaurismäki’s “The Match Factory Girl”
Major Arnold Toht unfolds his hanger in Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones’ “Raiders of the Lost Ark”
Garfield comment on Odie with a bucket in its head.
Pierre struggles with his office objects, trying to write back a breakdown letter in JC.Carrière & P.Étaix “Rupture”
A 3D printed gun malfunction causes an accident, examined in court in “The Good Wife”.
During a holiday in Spain Steve has problems with a rented SEAT 600 gearbox in “A Touch of Class”.
“Damastes (Also Known as Procrustes) Speaks” about anthropometry and his bed, in Z.Herbert’s poem.
Luminaris is “the story of a man living in a world controlled and timed by light.
Zbigniew Herbert writes “a simple dirge for the beautiful absence”
Agnès Jaoui as a tourist guide explaining the etymology of ‘furniture’ in “On connâit la chanson”
Martin and Frasier Crane discussing eclecticism in the first episode of “Frasier”
Calvin wants everything done automatically… even the fun!
Turning a 14th century urn into a lamp and Rock Hudson in trouble getting into Doris Day’s car in “Pillow Talk”
A rare Chippendale commode in Roald Dahl’s “Parson’s Pleasure”, one of his ‘tales of the unexpected’
Douglas Fairbanks in “Mr. Robinson Crusoe”, revisiting Daniel Defoe’s character and experiences
The advertising campaign for the Kodak Carousel presented by Don Draper in “Mad Men”
Newspaper printing process in Billy Wilder’s “The Front Page”
Garfield mocks about Jon confusing the telephone with the TV remote
Dr. Beeler reproduces a guitar with the Make-O-Matic 3D printer in Matt Groening’s “Futurama”
Dr. Kearns’ invention, the intermittent wiper, in Marc Abraham’s “Flash of Genius”
The falling of a chair in José Saramago’s short story “Chair” from “The Lives of Things”
Reverse anthropomorphism in “Tokyo” Michel Gondry’s “Interior Design” short
Disassembling and re-assembling of a gun in Marco Ferreri’s “Dillinger è Morto”
Impulse buying of a propeller in Michelangelo Antonioni’s “Blow-Up”
Jonathan Swift perceptions of out-of-scale objects in Gulliver’s travels to Lilliput and Brobdingnag
Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn and a convertible Fiat Topolino 500B in William Wyler’s “Roman Holiday”
A girl goes to IKEA after a break up, in a “Midsommar Stories” short.
A “Midsommar Stories” short: What if there’s a missing screw in a IKEA wardrobe?
Elijah Wood as Jonathan Safran Cohen, and his keepsake collection in Liev Schreiber’s “Everything is illuminated”
The type of furniture John Brown & Co should be making, in Alfred Hitchcock Presents: “John Brown’s Body”
A good hard table to bring you back to life in Sam Shepard’s “Curse of the Starving Class”
Coca-Cola Chairs Campaign: “What if we stand up?”
Jeff Bridges as Preston Tucker in F.F. Coppola’s “Tucker: The Man And His Dream”
The Marx Brothers showing all kinds of mechanized beds in Charles Reisner’s “The Big Store”
A very satanic-looking little old table described in Herman Melville’s short story “The apple-tree table”
Manufacturing soup pots and hinges in Steven Spielberg’s “Schindler’s List”
“The Gods Must Be Crazy” for sending a Coca-Cola bottle to the Bushmen.
Gadgets and gizmos aplenty, whozits and whatzits galore… thingamabobs, a dinglehopper and a snarfblat in “The Mermaid”
Nicholson Baker writes about breaking and mending objects in “Room Temperature”
Vintage advertisements and problems having a shower in Vincente Minnelli’s “The Long, Long Trailer”
Steve McQueen as a fireman complains about equipment, contractors and architects in “The Towering Inferno”
Albert Finney prefers to photograph Senlis cathedral to Audrey Hepburn in Stanley Donen’s “Two for the road”
Burt Bacharach and Hal David: a chair is still a chair, but “A house is not a home”
A Tom & Jerry cartoon: The Better Mousetrap designed and built by Tom Cat in “Designs on Jerry”
Robert Plath explains his bright idea of putting wheels on a suitcase in “This Must Be The Place”
Is Charles Bovin always careful in Blake Edwards’ “Victor Victoria”?
Miguelito to Mafalda: How the hell does time manage to turn the corners in square clocks?
Problems opening a TetraPak in Richard Lester’s “A Hard Day’s Night”, with The Beatles
Quality control in Shaun Tan’s “The Arrival”
A cruel cup and a kind saucer in Howard Barker’s “13 objects”
Edward Norton about the IKEA nesting instinct, and talking with Brad Pitt about consumption in “Fight Club”
In S. Lumet’s “12 Angy Men” a member of the jury explains how to use a switchblade to H. Fonda and others
Woody Allen tries to sit on a one-legged sculptural chair in the film “Sleeper”
Bob Dylan sings about not producing locally.
A Majorelle table and a Bracquemond vase exhibited in the Musée d’Orsay analyzed in O. Assayas’ “L’Heure d’été”
J.Binoche as an industrial designer analyzing Georg Jensen’s dinnerware in O.Assayas’ “L’Heure d’été”
Summer is here, and with it, David Mamet writing about moving the air. Yes, that “lovely, fine invention”: the fan.
Robert Wise’s “Executive Suite” is based on the Eames’ aesthetics and design philosophy.
A small razor for C. Grant’s face and E-M. Saint as an industrial designer in Hitchcock’s “North by Northwest”
Humphrey Bogart presents the greatest plastic ever made in Billy Wilder’s “Sabrina”
Pablo Neruda’s “Ode to Things”. He loves “in short, / everything / handmade / by man, all things”
Christopher Nolan’s “Inception” explains the paradox in the Penrose stairs.
Tom Waits’ piano has been drinking over a carpet that needs a haircut…
The architect’s ideals clashes with the clients’ in “The Fountainhead”
“Teddy” gets out of the finite dimensions, as told by J.D. Salinger
Woody Allen explains the chattering teeth in 2173
Willie Nelson is sharing feelings with the window
Burl Ives telling Paul Newman why people buy so many things, in “Cat on a Hot Thin Roof”
Pablo Neruda’s ode to the spoon.
‘How to open a door’, as told in Billy Wilder’s “Double Indemnity”
“The philanthropy of furniture” by Quim Monzó: if objects had thoughts…
Furniture design corrections in Le Corbusier’s Curutchet House. “The Man Next Door”
Batti’s Placentero chair is described in “The Man Next Door”
Tennessee Williams’ “Sweet birth of youth”: “I guess there’s a clock in every room people live in”
The change in habits and furniture of a society without books, as told by F.Truffaut in “Farenheit 451″
Miguelito realizes he should have used a screw better than a nail as he shows Mafalda a wooden sword
R.M.Rilke waits for the falling of “The Ball” to continue the game, as it points the players their new stage
Bob Dylan’s Highlands relates to timing and expectations
“Last thing I give your mama before she died” Tennessee Williams’ “Sweet Birth of Youth”
“Mirrors: to this day, no expertise can explain / the key to what you truly are” R.M. Rilke.
Should we have blind faith in lifejackets?
Nicholson Baker touch-typing with prancing fingers under the firelight.
Buster Keaton with a wrist sun clock and a helmet used as a lock… in the roman age!
