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Waste Basket Hand: It's a good trick in selling the second to have a waste basket hand basket at hand, and then if the mother hesitates about buying another print, the salesgirl who, has taken it from the files should throw it away immediately, while the mother is watching, and explain with a smile that it's impossible to keep any rejected prints in the files. Seeing a picture of her loved one thrown into a waste basket hand basket for later burning has enough effect on the mother to make her change her mind and buy it.
More permanent installations require their own housings and these types are characterised by the basket strainer. Here, a suitably strengthened wire mesh or perforated plate shaped into a basket is placed inside a sealed housing through which the feed stream flows under pressure. In simplex systems the flow continues until the strainer is clogged with the unwanted solids. At this point the flow is interrupted and the basket is manually changed.
While respecting the museum's formalist tradition, this trio has expanded the meaning of MoMA's catchphrase "good design" to include emotion, wit, and the imprint of popular culture.
Acquisitions that bolster this revised definition include Reiko Sudo's ethereal Feather Flurries Fabric, Matali Crasset's cheeky Artican waste basket hand-paper basket, and Fuji's disposable cardboard camera.
"We are all very different," says Antonelli.
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