Let us now praise anonymous designs  

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Great thread idea, had been thinking the same.
Some things I use everyday work so well I'm usually not aware of them. I especially like the Bodum plunger but also a set of shallow cone shaped spun or stamped stainless steel bowls I use constantly and a drinking glass set produced by Crown Corning in Australia in the 70's that is brilliant, they have a really thick low stem and a very slight curved taper upwards, they are everywhere in charity shops for 20c apiece. They stack (all three together), the foot being slightly smaller in diameter than the mouth of the smallest glass. They look good for drinking wine, whisky and the big ones are great for cold drinks.
I'll try and find a picture.

I love that
chair. I sat in one at outside a Scandinavian furniture store in Berkeley. Really comfortable, I thought, and good looking and clever. Thanks for the good pics. Hard to find if you don't know what it's called or who makes it ?

There is a bit of a thread ab...
There is a bit of a thread about the chair at Apartment Therapy, but I am not sure anything definitive (a number say the chair is all over Central America). There are also instructions for making your own available on the web.
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/boston/good-questions/good-questions-hel...

This site sells them (below).
They're so great looking, and so affordable, it's surprising they're not ubiquitous. If only I had a terrace...
http://sitincomfort.com/fopachchwoma.html

Canadian version,
eh?

Black and Decker "Lids Off" Jar Opener...
Not much to look at, and not perfect in function, but still it is a god send to old persons, like my mother- and father-in-law. Old persons inevitably lose the ability to open jars. If you can't open a jar, it is very tough to cook good food for yourself. Old people deserve better food than prefab crap nuked in a micro wave. This Lids Off helps them continue cooking. Congratulations to Black and Decker. I don't know why they don't advertise it more effectively, so more old persons know it exists.

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I don't know if anyone else does this but opening a tricky jar (if its going back in the fridge) can often be done by piercing a little hole in the top of the lid with the point of an old knife or hitting the edge of the lid a few times with a butter knife.
That looks a very bulky device to accomplish such a simple thing.

Heath
"Some things I use everyday work so well I'm usually not aware of them. I especially like the Bodum plunger"
If we didn't know that the Bodum was a coffee product we might think you had a special problem... every day?!

I've seen these chairs...
I've seen these chairs around.... I've always loved them!! But didn't ever think it could possibly be comfortable.... glad to hear differently.

Some anonymous things of...
Some anonymous things of mine.
Looks familiar? Folding fruit bowl was my late Grandmothers since the '50s or 60's, we have two and one has Japan branded on the underside. The bentwood shelf, also hers from same period unknown. Believe she got them while living in New York.
White wood bookends a recent addition...old! Probably 20's-40's.
Signed, but illegible, ceramic carp coinbank
Same for the pen holder...
Last is a foot tall ceramic electric insulator.

I agree with heath...
Turning the lid is not the problem, unless you have no strenght left at all. There are numerous small gadgets on the market to lift the edge of the cover slightly so that air can get in...see if I can get a picture with this.
http://www.brixdesign.com/c5x_details.asp?functionx=det&MENU=1&itemidrec...

A random kitchen utensil...
Usually works?

Asian Inspired
Very contemporary and cool to the senses. I would love to have this in Chicago.

Here's
my random kitchen utensil -- a generic stainless fork that my parents had in their kitchen from at least the 'fifties. I've had this one for forty years or more -- I used to have two.
Sturdy and, I think, graceful -- surprisingly heavy -- the companion of the generic cast-iron skillet, the concave-sided white ceramic mug, and the plain tempered-glass dinner plate, along with the white-speckled black or dark blue porcelain-enameled tinware. . .