For the Audiophile with a taste for good design(looks)....a question.

Good to have friendly input.  Tis not the season to be curt or ill mannered.  If you are somewhat new to AudiogoN, the mood around here is generally one of camaraderie. 

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Thanks to all for your input.  Could not agree more...loved the looks of my CJ ART pre and the champagne color was/is "out of the norm". 

So, are you telling me I should not post images of my 1969 Craig system with the 8 track and 4 "slider" equalizer section?  It does have those wonderful speakers with the inverted funnel over the speaker to "disperse" the sound in a "360" pattern so everyone can enjoy "Perfect Sound Forever"...?

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/yxOVkDL18jqJ2cDSW3b5U5UIDQ2wzeGA75P3uZVXlv8o6PUXiOZ5aBbhlnpG...

Thanks, I will take a look. 
I have spent most of my audiophile adult life based on the sonics...and I just kind of recognized how much cosmetics have been part of my private life, business life and enjoyment, but seemed to hold that back on being a factor in my audio pursuit.  The only overt "liked the way it looked" product I can remember was the CJ ART preamp.

as was once said,.."in the eye of the beholder"

It would be best not to say which country, but when I had my Modern/Scandinavian furniture store, an excellent company made furniture for a market that they did not sell elsewhere.  When I asked the company about this, the owner said the _______ buy their furniture by the pound. 

Charles and Ray Eames, Hans Wegner, Finn Juhl, Tapio Wirkkala,  George Nelson and many other designers from the middle of the last Century until now have designed some great consumer products.

https://coveteur.com/2018/05/31/new-midcentury-modern-furniture-designers/

And like most "things", this list is a beginning rather than an end.  Enjoy. 

Larry, it is not always the women. I did architecture and interior design for years, even taught. Most of the best industrial design, architecture and MOMA consumer products were designed by men. Very few Ferraris, Porsche, Packards and others were designed by women. Women can and do design great things. But to say that men goober anything up not true...who designed and built that building you are living in or the car you drive or most of the furniture in your home?  Do a Google search with the word Bauhaus or name Raymond Loewy....just for a basic beginning. 

Do google/ebay for great designers, buildings, homes, cars, coffee pots and more and see which gender designed them.  Like men are bad cooks, the vast majority of world class restaurants I have been to have a man for head chef.....not to mention the aircraft I flew on to get there.   Both genders can excel. 

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The Conrad Johnson ART Pre-amp, was far from "eye candy".  In it's day it was considered SOTA....state of the art.  But I do agree that sometimes looks seem to be more the objective than sonic merits.  But the same can be said for automobile design for decades.  Like when Ferrari was making the original GTO and Porsche had their 356 and Detroit was trying to make barges that ate gas and could barely be stopped without brake fade....but they did have fins that looked like sci-fi movie space ships.