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There were a great deal of designers who helped produce products such as Russell Wright for General Electric, etc. However, it would be interesting to see where we could go with this aspect of functional design.
I give it up to Italy with their take on aplliances and the such. I figure Samsung will have to get our household through until the next.

Several years ago I had just...
Several years ago I had just bought my house and needed to find a "counter-depth" refrigerator since any of the current refrigerators you can buy in the U.S.A. these days are so huge, and protrude so far beyond the counter-top, that they would have interfered with the door into my kitchen (as well as just looking really lousy, sticking 7"-10" beyond the countertop). You can buy a cheap refrigerator for under $500, but any of the counter-depth models I saw cost around $2000-3000. And, often "counter-depth" means 30", when most countertops are actually only 24" deep. From a design standpoint, I would just prefer refrigerators that are not so huge, and protrude out so far into the kitchen space. Many of them are 34" deep or deeper. I never could find a reasonably priced new "counter depth" refrigerator, but ended up finding a used KitchenAid side-by-side on Craigslist for $200 that was an amazing 26" deep overall. It had cost the original owner nearly $3000.

Perhaps
some objects naturally allow for greater variations. Chairs, for example, can provide much different good experiences depending on design variations. By contrast, a refrigerator serves such a singular purpose that variations would risk elevating style over functionality. (Does Philippe Starck have a refrigerator?)