However, Google UX designers took a closer look at the needs and operating environment of Indian users and realized they were dealing with many situations where formal road names weren't available, or where users may have literacy issues or very different wayfinding habits. Landmarks, they discovered, play a critical role in orienting the traveler, and may be a more recognizable marker that indicates a turning point or correct progress--a gas pump , a seed store, a kiosk all may be better known markers of direction and distance than a formal road name (which may not be locally recognized) or distance traveled. The result is that Google has made these subtle but important changes to their text directions. It may also present a future opportunity to build a better database of locally important businesses and information nodes as it complies these marker points. 

 In order to see an object we must be separate from it. A space must exist between us and the object. Therefore, we imagine a space around the object, and also around ourselves, because, at some stage in our mental development, we realize that we, too, are objects. Space is the medium of our relationships with the world and everything in it, but, for all of that, we do not experience it in a palpable, physical sense. We must think space into existence.

Very cool concept of a future Singapore

Question: Why did the original cost $14,000? I can understand the process that goes behind the research and design of say, a chair, but I've sketched out similar looking desks when bored at a previous job. I guess this is one area of design I need to investigate further to see how and why such things are noted artifacts.

Update: Here's an explanation of the table's concept from this original post:

The economic and ecological and aesthetic far-sightedness of Enzo Mari's 1974 Autoprogettazione still blows my mind. Translated variously as "self-projects," and "self-design, self-made," Mari's collection of designs for furniture you could build yourself with just a hammer using cheap, off-the-shelf lumber anticipated several key design principles that resonate right now: DIY; sustainability; small-scale, local production and consumption; simplicity; handmade; hacking commercial products; and the open-source/creative commons movements [the furniture could be built by anyone except a factory or a dealer.]

So, my humble apologies - it sold for $14k at auction, not on sale somewhere. Still a neophyte here folks, forgive me.