There is a pattern in American buildings that is so consistent it looks designed, and in a sense it was.
Commercial, public and institutional buildings use lever handles. Houses use…
An American moving to Europe discovers a washing machine the size of a filing cabinet, built into a kitchen run, with a round glass door and a cycle that takes…
Of all the things people argue about between Britain and the United States, this one has the clearest answer and the most confident wrong assumptions.
The accusation is familiar. Americans…
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A newsstand was a very small business in a very small building, and in American cities there were thousands of them - on corners, outside stations, in hotel…
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By 1962 the great era of the American tented circus was ending but had not ended. Shows still travelled, still raised canvas in a field on the edge…
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The American health club of 1979 sat between two eras. The old figure-salon model - passive machines, steam, massage, the promise that something would be done to you…