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  1. 1Peugeot Pepper MillPeugeot Pepper MillParis model, manual pepper mill Peugeot has been making pepper mills since 1874, and the reason the name still means something on a pepper mill is the part you never see. The steel mechanism does the work, and Peugeot backs every one of its steel mechanisms with a lifetime warranty, which is a…0
  2. 2OpinelOpinelNo. 08 folding knife Joseph Opinel invented his folding knife in 1890, and the No. 08 is the size most people picture when they hear the name. It is three parts doing the job of many: a blade, a wooden handle and a metal collar. That collar, the Virobloc added by Marcel Opinel in 1955, twists to…0
  3. 3Kilner jarKilner jarKilner preserving jar The Kilner name goes back to a Yorkshire glassworks founded in 1842, and its first jar with a patented vacuum seal arrived in 1900. The vacuum seal is the whole design: heat drives the air out, and as the jar cools the lid is pulled down onto the glass by the vacuum inside…0
  4. 4AGA cookerAGA cookerThe Swedish physicist and Nobel laureate Gustaf Dalén invented the AGA in 1922, and it has been made ever since. It is a heat-storage cooker: a heavy cast-iron body holds heat, and food goes into ovens set at different temperatures rather than under a dial, so you cook by choosing the right oven…0
  5. 5Le CreusetLe CreusetSignature round casserole (cocotte) Le Creuset began in 1925 in Fresnoy-le-Grand in northern France with an enameled cast-iron casserole in an orange it calls Volcanic, and the cast iron is still made there. Enamel is what made the cocotte more than a cast-iron pot: it needs no seasoning, does not…0
  6. 6BialettiBialettiMoka Express stovetop coffee maker Alfonso Bialetti designed the Moka Express in 1933, and its eight-sided aluminum body is still the shape most people picture when they think of stovetop coffee. The octagon is not only Art Deco styling: the flat facets give a firm grip when you unscrew a hot pot.…0
  7. 7KitchenAidKitchenAidTilt-head stand mixer, descended from the 1937 Model K The industrial designer Egmont Arens was brought in to create new models of the KitchenAid mixer, and the Model K he worked on, launched in August 1937, set the rounded outline today's tilt-head mixers still follow. The clever part is the hub…0
  8. 8Chemex CoffeemakerChemex CoffeemakerThe chemist Peter Schlumbohm invented the Chemex in 1941, and it still looks like what it is: a piece of laboratory glass made for the kitchen. One hourglass vessel does the work of funnel and pitcher, and the wooden collar with its rawhide tie is the handle, so there is no glued-on part to crack.…0
  9. 9DualitDualitClassic toaster Max Gort-Barten's first successful product was a flip-sided toaster patented in 1946, and the Dualit Classic still looks like the post-war catering kit it grew from: a squared, polished metal box with nothing decorative about it. That plainness is the design. The Classic is aimed…0
  10. 10Margrethe BowlMargrethe BowlThe Margrethe bowl came out of Sigvard Bernadotte and Acton Bjørn's design studio in Copenhagen, where the young Jacob Jensen is often credited with drawing it. Rosti launched it at Christmas 1954, named after Bernadotte's niece, Princess Margrethe of Denmark. It is the most practical object here…0