great design under $180  

I have
this set of three. (not the bowl shape)
The price has jumped a bit since the first offering but
still a nice visual for the money.
EVA ZEISEL BRONZE CANDLESTICK SET
http://www.evazeiseloriginals.com/collectibles.shtml#

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My Dualit toaster is 'toast'.
First, one of the leveling feet broke, then one of the heating elements.
Fortunately the panini basket slot is still functioning.
I don't use it anymore...in basement storage.
For panini, a cast iron pan with a smaller cast iron for weight is superior.
For toast, the broiler is fine. And i prefer just toasting one side anyway.
I seem to have eliminated all small electric appliances. The coffee pot is
Chemex now. Fresh local produce chopped by hand. Cooking is therapy
i suppose.

Some things
Jasper Morrison's Coffee Machine. Not necessarily for haute coture cofee drinkers, but it has the most simple, brilliant and self contained measuring system I've ever seen on a coffee-maker. And it's pretty. (78$ when I bought it... $175 now)
Alvar Aalto stool. Timeless, durable, functional piece of furniture. ($150)
Aarnio's Puppy from Magis. Cute, playful design 'object' for kids and adults. ($99)
Swiss Army pocket knife. All the tools you need to survive Armageddon: Knife, tweezers, scissors, wine-opener. ($25-$80)

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Where can you get the Aalto stool 60 for $150?

Great tips, Ite!
Thanks for the links and advice. I am at the Hotel Metropole which appears to be right downtown in the thick of things. Was not aware that the Kasbah had traveled quite this far north, must check it out!
Sorry, guys, back on topic.

Eames House of...
Eames House of Cards
Alexander Girard Pillows
Lightolier Lytegem lamp
Eames Hang-It-All
BluDot "Real Good" chair
Eames LTR side table

Aalto
Aalto was $150 when they stopped distribution in the US. Dunno what the European market is like now.

Unica Home
Sells it at $250 and up.

Designer's dozen
Levis 501 jeans
Gem paperclip
Paul Fisher Space Pen (chrome)
Ticonderoga pencil
Moleskine notebook
Zippo lighter
Louisville Slugger solid maple baseball bat
Rawlings full grain leather baseball
Slinky toy
Duncan Imperial yoyo
Opinel folding knife
Dietrich Lubs' black travel alarm clock by Braun

Timepiece
I Lubs it.

No longer made?
Braun Travel Alarm Clock by Dieter Rams
Item Num : AB1
Braun travel alarm clock, thought to be extinct, has resurfaced from a lost warehouse. The AB1 Braun Clock is a simple pure modern design.
This would be my choice as well...
It is available, but limited supply.
http://www.fitzsu.com/braun-travel-alarm-clock-dieter-rams-p-6624.html

Clock confusion
Thanks for the alternate view. Can anyone help clarify? MoMA offers that little black number as a Dietrich Lubs design, whereas the fitzsu site, as we have seen above, shows a seemingly similar model as an out-of- production, recently-discovered-in-old-warehouse find, by Dieter Rams. Two subtly different products? Alternate universes?

It is a growing trend...
amoung design lovers to outdo each other on "inside" information.One of the more frequent forms of that inside information is to know who worked for whom. Dietrich Lubs was indeed a designer for Braun during the time Dieter Rams was design director (untill 1995) and nobody has any doubt about the fact that he worked on this clock as well as on the famous Braun calculator.
So this is the same kind of "truth" as changing the designer's name under the Nelson clocks or under the Margrethe mixing bowls. My point of view is that it is normal curtoisy to mention collegues that have been influential in the design, but that the end result and the fact that it actually reached production is always the responsibility of the head designer....in this case Dieter Rams

Thanks, Koen.
Thoughtful and balanced as ever.
Next question: where is this warehouse? I'm picturing that cavernous space shown at the end of the first Indiana Jones movie.