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Kitchen is the engine room of Mountpleasant Square house where ideas flourish
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Sometimes the last place for inspiration is at an office desk. For Archimedes it was his bath that provided him with the lightbulb moment, after which he ran naked through the streets of Syracuse shouting “Eureka”. Recently Christopher Stringer, a since-retired industrial designer at Apple, and one of the designers of the original iPhone, admitted in court during the long-standing smartphone patent war Apple versus Samsung, that a small group of designers would sit at a kitchen table, where they would trade sketches in an honest circle of debate for new ideas.