20 September 2006

Another man tool that women liked


Though disappearing at a great rate from its native land, the red pillar box was one of the best inventions of the British mind. Visible at a great distance, this elegant and distinctive portal to the vaunted services of HM Post Office (they used to deliver four times a day in Central London) is a magnificent design object, now lamentably replaced by humbler (and much uglier) postboxes...

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