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The cheapest ever car, Tata Nano has been made possible through sheer innovation, technological upgrades and the willingness to make the dream project of making a car by the people and for the people. With basic essential features and an engine made of aluminum, the cost of the car is reduced to a great extent to make it affordable for the company to fulfill a promise to the masses.

I will review the Nano car like this: Its features not only helped in cost reduction but also enabled higher fuel efficiency while complying with the pollution standards which is commendable. A review of the Nano car also shed light on some important, yet cannot-ignore facts. For instance, the basic version of the car comes with no air-conditioning system and there is also no option for a radio system and the bumpers are not welded they are just bonded to body; these simply imply reduced fabrication and manufacturing costs.

Additionally, most parts of Tata Nano are being manufactured by different vendors including Bosch, Delphi, Caparo and many more who in their turn are trying to reduce costs through constant innovation, research and development. However, apart from all these, the real advantage of Tata's is its development cost, that is the cheap and skilled labor including a whopping 150-member engineers with reduced infrastructure cost of setting up its plants for manufacturing the same. In fact, the entire car is indigenously developed including the engine simply because assembling an imported engine did not work out with respect to economics. The entire cost per unit inside the factory is around Rs. 65,000.

If you ask me what are the other innovations that made this dream car possible? Let me tell you, several reviews of Tata Nano reveal that in order to keep a check on the production cost, the company has designed and manufactured similar mechanisms and handle for both sides of the door; the left and the right, the rear-mounted engine developed indigenously, seats come as single mold rather than separate pieces, the instrument cluster is not fitted in front of the driver but in the middle, implying that the same dashboard can be used for a left-hand drive. It is but for the futuristic innovation and continuous re-look of the design and engineering methods that have made a dream of making car for as low as $2500.

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Modern Furniture - Timeless Classics

Modern Furniture: Timeless classics

Prior to the modernist design movement, functionality to the back seat appeal to the popular ornamental furniture style. The modern movement reintroduced simple efficiency and originality to the home furnishings marketplace, and innovation to home decor.  Modernist design schools like Bauhaus and Werkbund revolutionized home furniture. By investing in the creativity of their artists along with modernist philosophies, the introduction of advanced manufacturing methods and new materials for home furnishings design emerged. Many of the original modern furniture designs are still popular today, like the Eames Chair, the Barcelona Chair, the Wassily Chair and many others.  This article presents the classic modern furniture pieces that are still popular today.

The Wassily Chair, also known as the Model B3 chair, was designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925-26 while he was the head of the cabinet-making workshop at the Bauhaus, in Dessau, Germany. Despite popular belief, the chair was not designed for the non-objective painter Wassily Kandinsky, who was concurrently on the Bauhaus faculty. However, Kandinsky had admired the completed design, and Breuer fabricated a duplicate for Kandinsky's personal quarters. The chair became known as "Wassily" decades later, when it was re-released by an Italian manufacturer named Gavina who had learned of the anecdotal Kandinsky connection in the course of its research on the chair's origins.

This chair was revolutionary in the use of the materials (bent tubular steel and canvas) and methods of manufacturing. It is said that the handlebar of Breuer's 'Adler' bicycle inspired him to use steel tubing to build the chair.

The Wassily chair, like many other designs of the modernist movement, has been mass-produced since the late 1920s, and continuously in production since the 1950s

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The Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman, correctly titled Eames Lounge and Ottoman, were released in 1956 after years of development by designers Charles and Ray Eames for the Herman Miller furniture company. It was the first chair the Eames designed for a high-end market. These furnishings are made of molded plywood and leather. Examples of these furnishings are part of the permanent collection of New York's Museum Of Modern Art.

The chair is composed of three curved plywood shells. In modern production the shells are made up of seven thin layers of wood veneer glued together and shaped under heat and pressure. This differentiates the newer chairs from the "original" (vintage) chairs which used Brazilian rosewood veneers and were constructed of five layers of plywood. Also differentiating the very earliest sets from newer sets were rubber spacers between the aluminum spines and the wood panels first used in the earliest production models and then hard plastic washers used in later versions. In the earlier sets, the zipper around the cushions may have been brown or black as well, and in newer sets the zippers are black. The shells and the seat cushions are essentially the same shape: composed of two curved forms interlocking to form a solid mass. The chair back and headrest are identical in proportion, as are the seat and the Ottoman.

Mies van der Rohe Barcelona Chair
Perhaps the most famous of all modern chairs, the Barcelona Chair by Mies van der Rohe is a ubiquitous and unmistakable classic of modern design.

German-born American Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe created the Barcelona Chair for the German Pavilion in 1929 for the Barcelona Exposition. While some have tried to mimick the sleek silhouette and structure of the Barcelona Chair, Mies van der Rohe gave the exclusive manufacturing rights for his design to Knoll in 1953.

The Barcelona Chair and matching ottoman feature carefully hand-tufted leather with hand-buffed frame and carefully welted Spinneybeck volo cowhide panels. The Barcelona Chair is meticulously hand-crafted from start to finish and is truly a modern masterpiece. The Barcelona Lounge Collection was honored with The Museum of Modern Art Award in 1977.

Mies van der Rohe's revolutionary 1929 design is still relevant today, fitting seamlessly with almost any decor. The Barcelona chair and ottoman set is a modern must-have. Today Knoll manufactures the frame in two different steel configurations, chrome and stainless. The chair is almost completely hand-laboured. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's signature is stamped into each chair.

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Want to learn more about the modern design movement?

Check out these great books and magazines about modern furniture & design:

A History of Modern Design: Graphics and Products Since the Industrial Revolution by: David Raizman
This book is a beautifully illustrated documentation of the history of the modern design movement and includes everything from modern furniture to modern fashion and advertising.

Twentieth-Century Design (Oxford History of Art) by: Jonathan M. Woodham
This is a very thorough and well-presented history of modern furniture design by Oxford History of Art - an essential for any modern design library.

The Eames Lounge Chair: An Icon of Modern Design by: Martin Eidelberg, Thomas Hine, Pat Kirkham, David A. Hanks, C. Ford Peatross
The Eames Lounge Chair is a classic and this book commemorates its 50th anniversary with appropriate style and attention to detail.

Sourcebook of Modern Furniture, Third Edition by: Jerryll Habegger, Joseph H. Osman
A great resource and review of modern designers and architects.

Dwell
Dwell is the greatest magazine for staying up-to-date on modern design and architecture trends.

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Dan Stockwell with three of the more than 300 models he has built. Pictured are a F4U Corsair, a 1932 Ford Roadster with a Pontiac engine and a 1940 Barrel Back Chris Craft.

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