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What is your favorite product that you didn't design?

What is your favorite product that you didn't design?

Stefane Barbeau (left) and Duane SmithCofounders of Vessel, and life partners.

Cork stool by Jasper Morrison, for Vitra.

Smith: ''The material weathers well over time."

Barbeau: ''It's a nod to history, referencing the wooden stools [Charles and Ray] Eames did for Herman Miller."

Anthony Pannozzo

Director of strategic design innovation for Herbst LaZar Bell

Philippe Starck bottle warmer for Target, which ''has an insulating sleeve that keeps the bottles cold so you can keep it in the nursery. In the middle of the night you don't have to walk down to the kitchen."

Kevin Young

Director of industrial design, Design

Continuum

None. ''It's the designer's curse. I'm so critical of products. Almost everything I have has many areas for improvement."

Betsy Goodrich

Vice president of design, Manta

''A couch from Crate & Barrel with a multicolored pattern that resists children's messes. Dishes at Crate & Barrel by Eva Zeisel. My salt water fish tank: It's really soothing, and to have something that's living in the room really opens it up."

LINDA MATCHAN

Antonio Bertone

Global director, brand management, Puma

''It's my new toy, a sailing kayak called a Caillou that is super gorgeous."

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