"Beauty," Olafur Eliasson, 1993. In this work, a spotlight shines through a layer of mist to create a rainbow that's only visible from certain angles.

1993, Pierluigi Cerri.

A photo of Verner Panton from 1993. © Panton Design, Basel

"It looks like an ordinary home, but there are decisions here that are out of the ordinary,

The appliances have been installed, and the

Vitra Fire Station, Weil am Rhein, Germany, 1993

Super Normal: Sensations of the Ordinary by Naoto Fukasawa and Jasper Morrison (Lars Müller Publishers, 2007). A compilation of 204 products that reminds us of the brilliance behind everyday objects.

The Waterloo International Terminal, 1993, in London. Image courtesy Jo Reid/John Peck.

Kellogg spent five years working on the house, and the structure was completed in 1993.

Designed by architects and experienced sailor Kari Leppänen, Honka’s Saari villa was built with 134-milimeter thick square logs treated with a dark finish, and has three-meter wide eaves that provide shade, and wind protection for the outdoor patio.

This opulent oasis promises mystery, adventure, and escape from ordinary life.

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Rineke Dijkstra, Long Island, N. Y., USA, July 1, 1993, 1993; chromogenic print; 66 1/8 in. x 55 11/16 in.; Courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York & Paris; © Rineke Dijkstra

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Their son's bedroom features skillful use of ordinary birch-finished shelves from Ikea. The 1950s fiberglass shell chair is from Modernica.

Sofie and Frank built a box around an ordinary glass fiber shell bathtub, then covered it in a mosaic of shower tiles. Natural light from a large dormer window gives the tiles an almost iridescent glow. The toilet is Duravit.

The kitchen, which is meant "not to look like a kitchen" is composed of art deco-inspired shapes, such as this bold, red circular form that Otten created to wrap an ordinary range hood. Even the oven is hidden behind the custom cabinets.

Operable and fixed windows frame views and encourage cross ventilation. “I wanted to work within the limits of ordinary wood construction,” Mohamed says, “so it was a question of how big an opening we could make with wood.” The Kao suspension light is by Bruno Houssin for Artemide.

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But don’t let the location fool you—the parking structure is the only thing that's ordinary about Notel. As guests arrive, they're greeted by the fire engine-red turf designating where the trailers are parked, a red carpet leading them to their rooms.

A photo of Verner Panton from 1993

An aerial view of Washington, DC, circa 1993.

Products from Rudy’s Barbershop, which started in Seattle in 1993, are available in the shower.

dasMOD did more than renovate; they rebuilt. Taking the 2-bedroom, 1-3/4 bathroom footprint, they gutted what was out-of-date, demolished an illegal addition, raised floors to grade and vaulted ceilings for height.

When Rob and Mary Lubera started pulling threads to uncover the origins of their new home—the lone midcentury house amid rows of Tudor Revivals in suburban Detroit—not even architecture scholars could have anticipated what they would find. Theirs is the last surviving residence by Alexander Girard (1907–1993), a modernist visionary who made his name in textiles but tried his hand at virtually everything, architecture included. The shoji-like laminate screens, seen in the entryway, are characteristic of his Japanese-influenced work.

1993 Stefano Giovannoni designs Merdolino toilet brush for Alessi.

AXOR Starck Green 2-Jet handshower by Hansgrohe From $280 Conceived by Philippe Starck and equipped with 134 no-clog spray channels and two spray modes, AXOR’s Green 2-Jet Handshower merges state-of-the-art engineering with streamlined design.

Chunky lumber chairs of Enzo Mari’s design surround a custom table that pivots 44 degrees. “The chairs fit the overall aesthetic of the room because they’re made out of an ordinary material and fastened together in a rugged way,” Damiani explains. Steel tie rods replaced the lowest rafters, allowing for better views of the ceiling.

Orgone Stretch and Lounge, 1993. Photo by Fabrice Gousset/Courtesy of Galerie Kreo.

ELEVATING THE ORDINARY

1993 Dolce & Gabbana create costumes for Madonna's "Girlie Show" tour.

In renovating a historic brick home for family friends in Washington, D.C., architect Nader Tehrani of NADAAA used ordinary plywood to reconceive the central staircase. Lined with a series of striated, geometric panels, the resulting structure is lit by a polygonal skylight above. Tehrani also designed the Pentavola table—featuring five sides, one for each member of the family—which they use as a communal workspace on the second-floor landing.

Maison Latapie when first completed in 1993, looking much less lived in.

Bookworm 8008 (1993) Photo courtesy of Ron Arad Associates and the Museum of Modern Art

Large Bookworm (1993) Photo courtesy of Ron Arad Associates and the Museum of Modern Art

No ordinary picnic here