Good morning. Im jane pauley and this is a special edition of sunday morning. A sunday morning by design. Its our annual look at the people, places and things that enriches our lives every day. To that end, you might notice Something Different about our look this morning. More on that in a few minutes. For now, just enjoy the view. Its a reminder how design in ways large and small is everywhere. And well start large. Very large. If you had unlimited funds to design the perfect city from the ground up, what might it look like . Sound farfetched . Luke burbank tells us thats exactly what some tech billionaires in california are trying to figure out. But how theyre going about it is raising some eyebrows. Reporter if you build it, they will come. At least thats what the backers of a new plan to turn this farmland into a new city believe. What if not Everyone Wants it built . I had a hunch this was a good place to do this. Reporter coming up on sunday morning, big tech, big dream of a big city. She was one of americas favorite roommates in the hit tv series friends. These days, Jonathan Vigliotti explains, courtney cox has designs on your living quarters. Reporter when courtney coxs star on the hollywood walk of fame needed cleaning, guess who stepped in . I played that character monday that. Oh, that character . Look at her, so happy. So she was a neat person. Guess who else is . Me. Reporter courtney cox, a neat freak with a fresh outlook on life ahead on sunday morning. Whichever way the wind is blowing, design always matters. Just ask Martha Teichner. Reporter what does the jaws shark have to do with the story about weathervanes . Well, just wait. Your whole career has been shaped by that shark . Yes, it really has. Reporter the shark started it, but have a look at what he started. It crafts its own story. Reporter coming up this sunday morning. In bathrooms across america, there is a new musthave accessory. With kelefa sanneh, we go behind closed doors. This aint high. I have never been saluted by a toilet before. Reporter since the great toilet paper panic of 2021, more and more americans are deciding that the bidet is right up there their alley. Instead of the water going down, it goes up. Reporter its coming up. Lets give it a shot. Later on sunday morning sinister. There goes reporter a not so dry run. Of course, we all need a break once in a while, so throughout the morning Susan Spencer will be looking at the serious design that goes into fun and games. Youve heard the saying a mans home is his castle . Sometimes seth doane discovers, it really is. Serena altschul surveys the front lines of stroller wars, a competition thats anything but childs play. Nancy giles shows us why tiedye, the freak flag of the 60s, is still flying high. Lee cowan test drives that may be the hottest car in america. Plus, Conor Knighton on the latest addition to the american toolbox. Well have a tea party with Martha Stewart and more all on our sunday morning by design. Well be right back. Much has been made over the years about living the california dream. The question is, can money, a lot of money, build that dream from the ground up . Luke burbank found place where some tech giants are trying to do just that. Reporter for over five years, starting back in 2018, something mysterious was going on. Its a nearly billion dollars land purchase. Reporter just 90 minutes northeast of San Francisco no one, not even the federal government, can figure out who is behind it. Reporter a Secretive Group was purchasing farmland. Some 60,000 acres in rural Solano County, california. Many feared it might be a chinese governmnt plot to try to set up shop near Travis Air Force base. Like a lot of people, i was chasing it around, running into the usual locked doors. Reporter but as the New York TimesConor Dougherty, who helped break the story found out solano is an unusual county. Reporter the truth was trainer than the rumors. I got a tip from someone that what was behind the locked doors was the richest people in the world quietly buying all this farmland. R reid hoffman, steve jobs widow, Marc Andreessen of Andreesen HorowitzVenture Capital firm, a whos who of Silicon Valley was involved. Reporter Something Else surprising. Within hours of doughertys big scoop, this Mysterious Company launched a website and publicly identified itself as California Forever, an ambitious plan to build a brandnew kind of city for as many as 400,000 residents. We knew this would be controversial when we announced the project. Reporter this is the guy behind. Rec i had a hunch. Reporter jan sramek, a 37yearold czechborn former Goldman Sachs trader turned aspiring city builder. You can see Travis Air Force base. Reporter who has to try to convince the public that the project isnt just an oasis for billionaires or some hightech city of the future. Overnight would be a downtown. Reporter his vision is to turn all of this into a walkable city in the mold of savannah, georgia, or philadelphia, pa, or new yorks west village. If you are successful, how will it be a place that middle class people could afford . By continuing to build for a long time. We look why places are unaffordable, they stopped building. Instead of taking these well paying jobs being created in Northern California and sending them to texas or florida, lets create a place where we can send them to Solano County. Place where our childrens future can be bright. Walkable middle class neighborhoods with homes we can afford. Reporter the projects fate will ultimately be decided this november by the voters of Solano County who have to decide whether or not to overturn a threedecadesold law restricting where new development can go. We are going to have total gridlock. You need to work on your soft skills. Dont insult us. Reporter jan srameks Charm Offensive has been met with, lets just say, a healthy amount skepticism by many locals. You are not going to answer that question because telling the truth is not in your nature. The proposal is to build a city about two miles up this road. Reporter locals like al medvitz and Jeannie Mccormack are. So last holdouts here. Most of their neighbors have sold to California Forever at far over market value. But theyve turned down millions to keep farming this 37hundred acre ranch which has been in jeannies family more than a century. Having Developers Come was always a fear my whole childhood because california was just changing so fast with development in farm areas. Reporter many of their neighbors who didnt sell have been sued by California Forever who accused them of colluding to raise land prices in the area. The a charge they deny. The housing is important. No question about it. But there are appropriate ways to do it. We are reaching at the voters because east solano submitted as an reporter California Forever is sparing no expense to try to win over county residents. Welcome, everyone. Thanks for joining us tonight. Reporter in what the New York TimesConor Dougherty says could be the most expensive Political Campaign in the history of Solano County. The idea that this tech money is being redirected to this very brick and mortar thing as an investment is kind of weird to me. Is it just that there is that much money to be made potentially . Everyone thinks i am crazy when i say this, i dont think its principally about money. I think many of the people involved are extremely frustrated that the pace of change in the physical world has lagged so far behind the pace of change in the digital world. If we could redesign everything and not have to deal with all the inherited problems that cities come with, that that would make everything so much easier. Reporter California Forever still has plenty of hurdles to clear. Some that may prove impossible. Most of the cities in america look like this. Not that many years ago. Reporter but he insists this idea of designing and building a relatively affordable walkable city within the nations most unaffordable and carcentric state is, in fact, possible. He says his company has the knowhow, the patience and, critically, the deep pockets to make it a reality. To me success is that in ten or 15 years, Solano County is this incredible economic Success Story that people all over america are looking at and say can we replicate that here. A good design, idea, and right partnerships locally, you can build something special. Reporter do you see yourself living there with your family . H. Yeah, the first house. My wife is already designing it in her head. Plug. And i use this. Febreze has a microchip to control scent release so it smells firstday fresh for 50 days. 50 days . And its refill reminder light means ill never miss a day of freshness. Wow. Incredible, isnt it . Yeah. Means ill never miss a day of freshness. Well, with your home, auto, boat and rv all bundled with progressive youve got the peace of mind to really wander. Yeah. Yeah, i just hope it stays this way. Once word gets out about these places they tend to are you done . Aaand there it is. Well, at least your vehicles are protected. Lets hit the road. Hey fam im just at this Beautiful Lake that i just discovered. Practicing gratitude, manifesting abundance. Its magic, and then some. Good morning. Here begins something new. For 45 years, sunday mornings set created by legendary cbs designer Victor Paganuzzi has served as our backdrop. But for this years design issue we opted for an update. And who better to reimagine our surroundings in virtual form than the eminent design firm rockwell group. There were things about the cbs sunday morning piece that w an immediate yes for me. I think of it as one of the ultimate communal rituals in every project we do, its really about celebrating a sense of ritual. Reporter David Rockwell is the firms founder and president. So we started with lots of hand sketching. As we zeroed in on it, i realized there was an opportunity to do something that had the simplicity and restraint of the original, but have a kind of ex uberance and theatrical flair. Reporter rockwell knows theatrical flair. He die zbliend hollywoods dolby theatre, home of the oscars since 2002. The winner is sophia loren. Reporter his vast portfolio spans hotels, stadiums, stage sets, libraries, playgrounds, airport terminals, bars and restaurants. More than 500 restaurants since founding the firm in 1984, 40 years ago this year. Some rockwell trademarks, screens, vibrant and playful. Stairs, sweeping and stately. And light. Deep, warm, and rich. My earliest thoughts about lighting and restaurants comes from candles and thinking about restaurants in guadalajara where i lived where the candle was like a hearth. You cant always replicate that, but its not a bad place to start. Reporter its not all glitzy restaurants and luxury hotels. This Childrens Hospital emphasizes color and imagination. And this temporary viewing platform at ground zero, helped mourners grapple with the unthinkable in the months after 9 11. Really what was needed was a public viewing platform, so people could have a unmediated look at what really happened. That temporary structure was definitely one of the most powerful things i have ever been involved with. Reporter rockwells firm, which started out with fewer than a dozen people, has grown to some 330. Without posts in l. A. And madrid. I am so grateful i get to do what i do, and feel lucky every day. Reporter and today, sunday morning is the grateful beneficiary of their creativity. Enough about our home. With seth doane, time to visit a home truly fit for a king. Reporter in the forests of burgundy in central france stands a medieval castle. Its partially built, not because its in ruins, but because its still under construction. It looks and sounds like the year 1255. The challenge here is to build as they would have in that era. Long before electricity, using tools fashioned by blacksmiths. And laying stones by hand. A mixture of sand and lime and water. This is like our glue that we use to stick our stones together. Reporter this will last . This will last thousands and thousands and thousands of years, no problem. This is what the romans and kbreeks used. Reporter ben wallace was restoring Old Buildings when he visited this castle gald guedelon as a tourist and applied for a job. How to be a stone mason as a career and then to discover place exists . A dream, really. The possibility to work as they did back in medieval times. To take the time, to do things properly. Reporter they are taking time. This project started 27 years ago and is still expanding into a medieval village. Why build a castle . I dont speak about castle world. Reporter a cathedral would have been more complicated. Yes. Reporter cofounder Marlin Martin worked with the unemployed and liked the idea of creating jobs in rural france. Today the project is sustained through ticket sales to 300,000 visitors a year. I want that people stay here and let their imagination go. Reporter the castle is here because of this quarry where toendra schrauwwen and extract sandstone for the walls. Select how many stones i want cut out of it. Reporter in a mod enquarry, the huge trucks and heavy equipment. Whats used here is an iron wedge. And sledgehammer. Lovely job. Reporter lovely . Yes. Imagine that this simple block is going to represent a beautiful stone in the castle with beautiful geometrical shapes. My job in guedelon is to grow medicinal gardens. Reporter resident herbalist emma blondy nurtures plants not just for food but medicine using medieval documents as a guide. I just writing like this until i have a very fine powder. Reporter paint recipes from the middle ages have been unearthed, too. Its a mix with some of the white of the egg. Some cherry tree gum. Yes, i know. Reporter Clarence Thomas pallet for wall designs comes from whats found on castle grounds. We have some different stones, clays, charcoal, ochres. Reporter in this bold effort to build a castle from scratch, they are following a design that dates back to frances king philip ii, and 800 years later its fostering a new generation of specialist artisans. Who notre dame burned in paris, workers came from the castle to help and share expertise. Whats the bigger value to this project . 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Serena altschul now with a look at a design trend forever in its infancy. I know everybodys looking for perfect stroller and we will find that perfect stroller. Reporter he has been filling garages for nearly 40 years. At bambi baby, his familys store in new jersey you can take it outdoor reporter its about finding folks the smoothest ride. Its a lot like buying a car. Do people say that to you . 100 . And we have minivan strollers. We have suv strollers. We have sports car strollers. Reporter once just a means for transporting a baby, now strollers have become thousand dollar accessories. Whoa or the tap of a screen. The baby is going to get rocked automatically. Reporter english architect william kent is said to have designed the first baby carriage. His whimsical creation for the duke of devonshirein in 1733 was meant not to be pushed, but pulled by animals. William wilson remodelled the design in 1877 and founded silver cross, a favorite of british royalty. Her majesty seen in the role of mother. Amazing suspension with the original leather strap still in place. Reporter knick paxton is silver cross ceo. The baby was suspended on this oscillating piece of leather. It was a totally natural vi environment for the baby to ride. Reporter whether you call them strollers, a program or a push chair, the buggy has always been a status symbol. These would have been for families that had means, that had a desire, i think, to be seen as well with these products. They were very glamorous. Reporter glamour these days starts with premium fabrics and soft leather handles, aesthetics, it turns out, are just as important as protecting that pressures cargo says firsttime mom aniyah kozart. I want something that will look good. Thats always the part of. I want something functional and will last a few years. The hardest part is understanding that you want to add so much functionality but its got to be almost transparent to the user. It can do this, but you