architecture but its cutting- edge architecture really put columbus on the map. we'll explore this remarkable town all morning but our cover story will take us back to the big city and as seth doane explains we have plenty of company. >> reporter: cities are back because so many people are back in them. after years of folks moving to the suburbs more and more of us are finding that returning to the city is the only way to go. >> they let you live, you know, really live, you know, think, feel, smell, taste and engage in life. >> reporter: cities let you do all that. >> yeah. >> reporter: why is city life so appealing? later on sunday morning. >> osgood: good design doesn't always mean soaring sky scrapers or elegant homes. there's also a role to play in more humble structures as serena altschul will be showing us. >> reporter: you may have been in the dog house once upon a time. but chances are it wasn't like this one. or this one. dogs might just be an architect's best friend. >> they can't really speak back. they can't give you other directions which is good. >> reporter: for pets of any persuasion, home is where the heart is. >> it is a chicken coop but at the same time it's also a luxury residence for poll tree. >> reporter: later on sunday morning. >> osgood: some names are synonymous with taste and style. here's a case in point. from our anthony mason. >> she showed a generation of women how to dress. now diane von furstenberg wants them to eat and sleep with her too. >> anything that happens in your life happens in your bed. >> reporter: will you join us on the show this morning. >> i will be there. i hope everybody will be there. >> reporter: designer diane von furstenberg later this sunday morning. >> osgood: when we speak of design we don't just mean office buildings or homes. we mean the objects we keep inside our homes as well. that includes the eye-catching items or david turecamo has been studying. >> well, if we're talking about design, you can't leave out the french. french lingerie, that is. >> they always make things that can make like a game between a woman and a man. intimacy. >> reporter: the french fashion most of us will never get to see. well, that is until later on sunday morning. >> osgood: professional designers aren't the only ones trying to improve the devices we use in our everyday lives. ordinary people are doing it as well. bill geist can attest to that. ♪ riding along in my automobile ♪ > the village retirement community was designed for a golf cart lifestyle with 90 miles of paths carrying 50,000 golf carts going almost anywhere they want to go and they go in style. every conceiveable style. and some inconceiveable. extreme golf carts later on sunday morning. >> osgood: michelle miller demonstrates a whole new way of getting a grip. rita braver visits the soaring sydney australia opera house. martha teichner admires the works of a world famous jeweler and much more besides. first let's go to jeff glor in the news room for sunday morning headlines. >> good morning, everyone. it is august 7, 2011. it was the bloodiest day for the u.s. after nearly a decade of fighting in afghanistan. 30 americans were killed saturday when their helicopter was shot down pushing the number of u.s. military casualties in the war to more than 1600. correspondent has more. >> reporter: nato says it's begun an operation to recover the remains of the chinook helicopter that came down southwest of kabul. the u.s. military confirms that of the 30 americans on board, 22 were navy seals when the same unit that killed osama bin laden, although none of those killed took part in that raid. the other eight were u.s. army and air force personnel. seven afghan soldiers and a civilian translator were also killed. the taliban is taking credit, claiming its fighters shot the chinook down with a rocket- propelled grenade. the high number of seals on board when the helicopter came down early saturday morning suggests they were involved in a mission against high-ranking insurgents. u.s. military sources say they were a back-up after another team ran into trouble. the crash is seen as a heavy setback to the u.s.-led operation in afghanistan. nighttime helicopter raids by u.s. special forces have become the coalition's most effective weapon to target taliban leaders and attack their hideouts. that role is likely to increase as more regular comebat troops pull out. the u.s. military will only confirm that there was enemy activity in the region when the helicopter came down but officials caution it could take weeks before investigators can say with exact certainty what caused the crash. jeff? >> thank you, charlie. standard and poors is defending its decision to drop the u.s.'s triple-a credit rating. the agency said washington had made a debacle of its budget process. financial markets in the middle east are down sharply today in the wake of the downgrade. g-7 finance ministers are planning emergency talks aimed at stabilizing the global economy. 45,000 verizon workers are now on strike. the walkout began this morning. it involves phone, cable and internet technicians from virginia all the way up to massachusetts. america still loves lucy. yesterday fans gathered in lucille ball's hometown of jamestown, new york, to mark what would have been her 100th birthday 60 years after it first aired "i love lucy" is still on the air in more than 77 countries. now today's forecast: rainy in the east, sunny and warm out west and more of the same in the week ahead. keep either your umbrella or your sun screen handy. >> osgood: ahead, cities on the rebound. and later ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >> osgood: how is this for a claim to fame? the church behind me is a famous example of modern architecture. across the street is the library. that's designed by another architect. between them this sculpture by a world class artist. all of this in an indiana town of 44,000 people. winston churchill once said we shape our buildings. thereafter, they shape us. and no person shaped the built landscape of columbus indiana quite like j.erwin miller. a progressive-minded businessman, a champion of civil rights causes once named by esquire magazine as the man who ought to be president, miller knew his hometown needed something special to stand out. so he plowed a portion of the profits from his family's cummings engine company into enlisting great architects to design many of the city's public buildings. an elementary school by harry weiss who went on to design washington d.c.'s monumental subway system. city hall by skidmore, owens, and barrel, builders of what is now known as one world trade center. and this library, perhaps best known for his work the pyramid in paris. businesses and houses of worship hopped on the modern bandwagon as well where columbus's most distinctive landmarks is north christian church. you might also recognize the same architect's hand work in the st. louis gateway arch and the tulip chair on the bridge to the starship enterprise. the chairs also look very much at home in the house that he designed for the miller family in 1953. will miller grew up here, says his father's philosophy is visible all across columbus. >> he felt that excellence ought to be pursued in everything you do. so if you were going to make a diesel engine, it should be the best possible diesel engine. if you're going to be part of the community, you should work to make it the best community you could and if you build your own house, it should be the best house possible. >> osgood: that spirit endures to this day several years after j.erwin miller's death. all by design. you'd have to head to a great big city to live among designs like this. as seth doane now shows us, these days a lot of people are doing just that. >> reporter: consider in. ... consider this. today worldwide more than half of us live in cities. by 2015, the united nations projects nearly three quarters of us will. more and more these bustling metropolises are becoming home. >> after a month after i moved into the suburbs. >> reporter: connie curran remembers her years in the 'burbs as dull. >> i bought a house in the suburbs. it had a white picture fence. my sister said you're on wisteria lane. i said what's that? it was a great house. it was very peaceful. it was very homogeneous and it was very boring. >> reporter: so last year at age 61, this nurse turned health care entrepreneur who found a new lease on life after beating stage 4 cancer settled in this spectacular home in san francisco. >> i said, now, this is the city. i'm living life. this is life. this is the luxury of middle age. >> reporter: the luxury.... >> the luxury of middle age. >> reporter: to move to the city. >> to move to the city and enjoy the richness and vastness of it. i can pick up flowers, pick up fruit. >> reporter: curran says walking everywhere keeps her fit. studies show urbanites are actually healthier. they even live longer. and their environmentally friendlier too because they drive less, live in smaller spaces, and use less energy. to offset her 200 square foot space, curran takes it a step further. this is all run by solar power. >> yes, yes. >> reporter: the natural light comes through and you let it right through the floor here. a lucite stairwell in her three story modern home lets natural light penetrate saving so much electricity that the utility company actually writes her a check every month. while curran moved to this vibrant city for culture, the author and harvard economist edward glaeser says many folks moving to cities are just following the money. city workers earn 30% more than those in suburbs. just look at midtown manhattan. >> the economic output, the payroll of this area is higher than oregon or nevada, right? this tiny sliver of land is unbelieveably productive part of america. that productivity is ultimately at the heart of people and what is drawing so many people to cities. >> reporter: today around 250 million americans choose to live in or around urban areas. that means more than three quarters of our population shares just about% of our land area. since 1990 the number of people living in cities has gone up by 7%. a far cry from all those years of folks fleeing to the suburbs. >> if you ever lived in the city, you know what attracts people to long island. >> reporter: today the move is in the other direction. back towards the cities. to some say the word "city" and you're talking the concrete jungle of manhattan. or maybe you think of the city by the bay, san francisco. but you probably would not think about this place. olive branch, mississippi. it's the fastest-growing city in the united states. >> in the late 1800s we were known as cowpen. >> reporter: sam is the mayor here. do you think changing the name from the town from cowpen to olive branch might have helped the growth. >> i think it's probably helped tremendously, yeah. >> reporter: olive branch, just outside memphis has certainly blossomed. 3500 people in 1990. took the small city of nearly 34,000 today. this 838% population boom, bloomberg business week recently gave it that ranking, america's fastest growing city. >> almost like the field of dreams. you build it and they will come. it's almost reality. >> reporter: it's reality all across the south. over the last ten years, most of the fastest-growing major cities were southern cities. that's not a coincidence according to edward glaeser. >> january's temperature affects metropolitan growth. that's a predictor of which cities will grow more likely or less quickly. america in 1900 was built around this great transportation network of the great lakes and the railroads. as it became cheaper to move goods over space, people got to move to the places that they wanted to move to. >> reporter: randy and shannon taylor moved from a smaller town in mississippi to olive branch back in 2002. they wanted better schools and more amenities along with an affordable cost of living. >> it's a range of things that have popped up in olive branch, restaurants and theater. and things like that. >> reporter: it has changed a lot in the last few years. >> absolutely. there used to be just a two-lane road that ran through olive branch. now it's one of the busiest streets in the county. >> reporter: that's what gets to life-long resident janice turner. >> occasionally i'll ask myself where are these people coming from? didn't they learn to drive? >> reporter: she says she can measure all this growth by the addition of traffic lights and chain stores. >> it's like an ocean of houses when i get to a high point in olive branch and look over the roof tops. it's startling to see. >> reporter: when we think of booming population growth, we might not think of olive branch, mississippi. but should we? >> sure we should. we should be thinking about so much exciting that's happening in the middle of america, that's happening in those areas. metropolitan productivity with cost of living. >> reporter: cities of all sizes giving folks like connie curran a chance to redefine where they live their american dream. >> i think it's just a way of revitalizing and reenergizing and in a way coming forth. >> reporter: and the city can make you do that. >> i think the city does that. the city living helps. >> osgood: coming up before and after. with an irregular heartbeat called atrial fibrillation, or afib, that's not caused by a heart valve problem. today we have pradaxa to reduce the risk of a stroke caused by a clot. in a clinical trial, pradaxa 150 mg reduced stroke risk 35% more than warfarin. and with pradaxa, there's no need for those regular blood tests. pradaxa is progress. pradaxa can cause serious, sometimes fatal, bleeding. don't take pradaxa if you have abnormal bleeding, and seek immediate medical care for unexpected signs of bleeding, like unusual bruising. pradaxa may increase your bleeding risk if you're 75 or older, have kidney problems or a bleeding condition, like stomach ulcers. or if you take aspirin products, nsaids, or blood thinners. tell your doctor about all medicines you take, any planned medical or dental procedures, and don't stop taking pradaxa without your doctor's approval, as stopping may increase your stroke risk. other side effects include indigestion, stomach pain, upset, or burning. if you have afib not caused by a heart valve problem, ask your doctor if pradaxa can reduce your risk of a stroke. >> osgood: as you might expect the folks behind columbus's ambitious plan, the miller family, had an ambitious plan for their personal home as well. this home was also home to a number of firsts, including this first aptly called conversation pit. the millers never even considered selling their home. they donated this national historic landmark to the indianapolis museum of art. but for people who are home sellers, staging is important. >> reporter: in this brutal real estate market, the deck is being stacked against sellers. consider that the average home for sale in this country has been on the market for more than three months. the days of just being able to put out a for-sale sign and people having bidding wars.... >> long gone. i'm not sure we'll ever see them again. >> reporter: it turns out there's a secret weapon for sellers. it's called staging. >> you have two choices if you want to work with me. stage it or not. if the answer is not, i'm not working with you. >> reporter: chicago broker ian schwartz said he cannot waste time on ugly houses. >> i do not want to be apologizing for the house when i walk in. i need to be confident. i need to say this is a beautiful house. >> reporter: staging is basically a facelift instead of major home surgery. this row house in chicago's pricey lincoln park languished on the market for two years before schwartz listed it and enlisted help. the. >> the first impression begins that first night like love. absolutely. when somebody walks in the front door, what we want is them to immediately feel comfort, inviting and wanting to see more of this house. i mean take me further. >> reporter: mona is one of chicago's hottest house stagers. her job is to turn lived-in into longed-for. >> the one thing that people have to understand when they sell a house is you have to let go of the house. it can't be yours anymore. you have to understand it's now a commodity. we need to appeal to the broadest audience possible. >> reporter: she showed us her handiwork in the row house. she says the most important changes are often the easiest. >> painting a house, painting a room will give you the most dramatic change for the money. >> reporter: and rule number one. bright is bad. >> your personal touches in your house, your personal colors aren't necessarily someone else's. and they have got to be able to feel themselves living in the home. >> reporter: the deal, like the devil she says, is often in the details. so this is stuff you supplied all this furniture. >> everything in this house that's not attached we brought in. everything. every piece of furniture, every accessory, every piece of art is all about accentuating the details in the house. >> reporter: that means rethinking the whole place from top.... >> previously when you came up the stairs the first thing you saw in this room was a big ceiling fan. >> reporter: to bottom. >> we fresh eneded this up. that's all it took to make the buyer know my kids could be here tomorrow as opposed to it's going to take us six months to get that basement done. >> reporter: according to a staging website one in four homes on the market today is staged. typically those homes sell more quickly usually in about one month instead of three. a professional staging will usually cost around 3% of the asking price. for the row house, that was about $30,000. and it paid off. earlier this summer the house finally sold for $893,000. >> come on in. take a look. >> reporter: but what if, like me, you can't or won't spend that kind of money if you decide to sell your house? >> right off the bat, got to paint. >> reporter: we have to paint. >> we have to paint. i would definitely give consideration to changing the carpet. we probably have a little too many plants. >> reporter: hard to hear perhaps but not nearly as hard as having your house sit unsold. >> osgood: next, smile. this ra. the pain was so frustrating. i found out that connected to our muscles are nerves that send messages through the body. my doctor diagnosed it as fibromyalgia -- thought to be the result of overactive nerves that cause chronic, widespread pain. lyrica is believed to calm these nerves. i learned lyrica can provide significant relief from fibromyalgia pain. and less pain means i can feel better and do more of what i love. 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fight back fast with tums. calcium rich tums goes to work in seconds. nothing works faster. ♪ tum tum tum tum tums >> osgood: this design isn't just pleasing to the eye. as richard roth tells us there's another part of the human face that benefits as well. >> hey, what's up. >> reporter: sometimes you only hear the truth from friends. >> you notice anything. >> your teeth. >> yes, i saw them from outside. ♪ when you're smiling, when you're smiling ♪ >> reporter: when subtlety is the casualty in the quest for self improvement. when a satisfied smile looks more like a cheshire grin, the blame these days goes to bad design. the artistry in modern dentistry is in a smile that's hardly noticed. ♪ when you're smiling, the whole world smiles with you ♪ >> we made the central teeth a little bit longer than the lateral. >> reporter: this miami dentist says when a patient tells him his work has been ignored, he's pleased. >> i love it. my family hasn't said anything. nobody noticed. they said you did something. we don't know what you did. i said that's a great compliment. >> reporter: as you would expect at a clinic calling itself the institute for age management and intervention, barski's dental practice sees patients wanting more than just a drill and fill. >> i have many patients that come in and they tell me i want a makeover. i want white teeth. but we have to step back and we have to have a discussion because i kind of look at myself as the architect. >> reporter: the architect of what? >> the architect of the smile. >> reporter: this is not cheap construction. it can cost as much as $3,000 to have a custom-made convenient ear of fing-nail thin porcelain fitted to a single unsightly tooth. even a smirk can reveal six teeth worth improving, each one requiring a precise calibration of shape and color to improve on nature inconspicuously. >> we look at nature. nature is not perfect. so i try to create symmetrical restoration. sem tree on the left to right side. i look to call my restorations natural. >> reporter: imperfect. >> imperfection is what's natural. if we make things too perfect to me that looks too fake. >> reporter: the bottom deliberately designing in physical flaws of paying to achieve cosmetic imperfection may seem unappealing especially if you're the sort who feels nature has already given you that in abundance for free. in new york jason kim has more than 30 years' experience as a dental ceramicsist crafting convenient ears and false teeth for patients convinced they want a perfect thousand- watt smile who now must be taught they don't. >> a patient can achieve a very natural color. natural means that this patient will go outside and have great white teeth. this patient will go to the bar. dim light will tone it down. >> reporter: from a palette more pink and gray than pearly white, kim adds translose ens to his force lynn forgeries. bakeded at over 1,000 degrees to imperfection. >> this part is the science. but for ceramicsists a lot of artistic parts go in there also. >> reporter: it's the sort of art that this woman with a whole new smile considers perfect. >> people don't believe i have this. they think i just have whitening done. they say you had your teeth whitened. that looks great. i don't say anything because they're not going to believe me. >> that's one of the things i love about my job is giving people a smile. >> because when you're smiling, the whole world smiles with you. >> osgood: ahead, pet projects. but first, virtuoso. ,,,,,,,,,,,, >> it's a sunday morning by design. here again from columbus, indiana, is charles osgood. >> osgood: they're playing our song. members of the columbus indiana philharmonic. the uniquely designed performance space like this one can help put any city on the map. rita braver has the proof of that. >> reporter: the sydney opera house is one of the most dazzling buildings in the world. a soaring sculpture that's become a symbol of australia. >> when people see it in the photograph, it's hard to imagine what it actually looks like as a building. >> reporter: tourism manager simon says they come from all over. >> from switzerland. >> reporter: where are you folks from? >> london. >> italy. >> reporter: seven million visitors a year. >> it's just amazing. >> very special. >> i think when people come this evening one of the first things they need to do is to almost sort of find the truth behind the image that they've seen. >> reporter: and the truth is pretty stunning. 22 stories high. 67,000 square feet of especially designed glass. what are the tiles made from? >> the ceramic tiles were all imported from sweden. one million 56,000 and six of them to be exact. >> reporter: and the guide says even the story of the opera house is of... well, operatic proportions beginning with the competition to design the building in 1955. the chief judge was none other than finnish american architect saarinen. he didn't like the final entries and demanded to look at the reject pile. >> he pulled out entry 218 which was buy a danish architect and the chief architect said ladies and gentlemen this is it. >> reporter: but there was a problem. the technology to build the design, finding a way to support the sail-like roof, did not exist. >> the engineer looked at all these different methods to build what the architect wanted to do. in the end he said this cannot be done. it's impossible. >> reporter: but somehow they figured it out. it took 10,000 construction workers and a lot more time and money than anyone expected. >> in the end instead of three years, it took 14 years. instead of $7 million. it cost $102 million. >> reporter: in the process, the city government curtailed the architect's authority. >> so he left. he left sydney. took his family back to denmark. >> reporter: the building finished by a committee final owe opened in 1973 with queen elizabeth presiding. the complex with five theaters has been host to more than 100,000 performances. everything from operettas to oprah, from a concert for dogs to the pussy cat doll. from the circus to sting. in 1999, architect utson reconciled with the opera house management. but too old to travel he died without ever seeing the completed building. today this lounge with a tapestry he designed is dedicated to the man who gave sydney a master piece. >> osgood: next, get a grip. but it's our job to make them say something interesting. so how about this weekend we learn some new tricks of the trade... then break out our doing clothes and get rolling. let's use some paint that helps us get the job done in record time and makes a statement when we're finished. we're lowering the cost of a new favorite color. more saving. more doing. that's the power of the home depot. take your painting skills to the next level at one of our free paint workshops. you kids almost ready? 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[ female announcer ] new cottonelle clean care toilet paper. get a free roll cover at respecttheroll.com. >> osgood: welcome to the dining room of the miller house featuring custom table wear and all sorts of commonplace art work in skillful design as our michelle miller has discovered. >> reporter: it's if choosing a kitchen product is anything like dating, designer david stool has some advice. >> you can't rely on loveate at first sight. relationships develop over time. you won't know at first glance whether it will do what you expect it to do. >> reporter: he should know. for more than 30 years as head of his firm smart design he and his team have created in keepers, the kind of products you settle down with. as a college intern in corningware he came up with the single serving grab-it. >> it became the best selling product in corningware line for quite a few years. >> reporter: next he took on the company's familiar floral design. which he says he detested. creating the grooved and very popular french white line. >> i knew if i made the corning wear fluted with a sculptural surface, their machines couldn't put the decoration on it. >> reporter: then one day he got a call from businessman sam barber whose arthritic wife was having a hard time with the potato peeler. could his team make a better one? dan took up the charge. >> we went out to hardware stores, sport shops to get ideas, borrow ideas and get some inspiration. in this case, we went to the bicycle shop. basically took a bike handle, put a potato peeler inside. >> reporter: voila. >> you go home and try to use this and it actually works pretty well. >> reporter: the result was a peeler that made its way into 10 million american homes, and the start of oxo, the house wears brand that has become a household name. for smart design which has created hundreds of oxo signature products it was also the debut of a design philosophy. >> if we can make this task easier or faster or better or more high performance that's really our goal. it's really the effect. >> reporter: the refekts they've created have made for some popular things. a novel jar opener. greaters that work in both directions. measuring cups that can be read from above. simple objects yet several now sit in the permanent collection at the museum of modern art. still david says it's not about that. >> what we really enjoy is making the things that everybody can have. >> reporter: take this lowly sink strainer. >> when you think about it, when you have to wipe the gook out of it, it's disgusting. >> reporter: through the trial and error process. first they tried a mesh screen. >> what was? >> it was worse. we thought maybe it should be made out of rubber or something so that it can kind of pop out. >> reporter: so they fashioned prototypes that of a toilet plunger and collapsible measuring cup and began the meticulous design work. >> the final one that when we hold this it flings into the other direction. the garbage just slides off. there's still probably, you know, hundreds of thousands and millions of opportunities like that that we just haven't discovered yet. >> reporter: smart design is looking for them well beyond the home. they help design the ultrasimple flip. last year's top-selling cam-corder. they also worked with ford to create an instrument panel ford's fusion hybrid that is is actually an easy-to-read computer screen. >> our challenge is to discover those small little things that can give us, you know, a little bit of help and make you smile. >> reporter: a design firm known for its ergonomic handles thinks it has a grip on the future. >> osgood: ahead, jewels that dazzle you. and,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >> osgood: the master bedroom suite here at the miller house has both art and art i factss, a little something for everyone. which brings us to martha teichner and then david turecamo. >> reporter: this tidy little bundle of joy is a 95-karat yellow diamond. this piece was-- what else-- a present from a man to his wife on the birth of their first child. a very rich man. but the point here is is not how much he paid for it. it's the design. >> you can remove the pennedant and wear it as a penned ant or broach and the wings come off to form earrings and the tail from the back comes off and makes a matching broach. >> reporter: how many pieces are there? >> there are over 350 pieces. >> reporter: sarah was curator of set in style, the jewelry event arpels recently at the cooper hewitt national design museum in new york. an exhibition which ought to have been posted with a warning. possible side effects from viewing include dreaming cinderella dreams. >> right from the beginning when arpels opened its doors in paris in 1906 they had the american heiresses and all sorts of people from all over the world flocking to their doors. >> reporter: alfred van cleef started the company with his wife and her brother charles arpels. their intention? to dazzle the world not only with the quality of their jewelry but its innovative design. van cleef and arpels became famous for the style today called art deco. with its geometric patterns. the pieces were startling modern in the 1920s. >> this is a penned ant for the lapel but it is also a watch. the whole piece being known. >> reporter: women didn't wear wrist watches. >> you were considered very incorrect to wear a watch to be able to see the time. they were camouflaged when worn at all. >> reporter: camouflaged like the settings of the stones. many van cleef and arpels pieces. >> this broach is an extraordinary example of the mystery setting. >> reporter: mystery. why mystery in. >> it's because you can't see how it's set. >> reporter: little grooves are cut in the stones so they slide into tiny gold channels like minute train tracks. in 1939 van cleef and arpels opened its first store in new york. the styles created for the american market intended to be more whimsical, bolder and more colorful. this bracelet, designed in 1937, for actor mar lane a dietrich was pretty bold. >> she came in with a ruby necklace. and wanted a bracelet. >> reporter: she wore it in the alfred hitchcock film stage fright. dietrich wasn't the only movie star or celebrity to collect van cleef and arpels jewelry. the exhibition included jewelry from elizabeth taylor's collection, richard burton bought her this set. because, he said, the jewels matched her eyes. so romantic. prince rainier of monaco didn't do badly on that front either when he married grace kelly. >> it's a whole set that prince rainier bought for her in new york in 1956 before their wedding. >> reporter: in fact, it was the duchess of windsor who thought up one of the most ingenius designs van cleef and arpels has ever made. yes, a necklace that zips. but that's not all it does. >> and here you are a bracelet. >> reporter: this one is vintage from the 1950s. van cleef and arpels vice president nicklaus brought it out of the company vault just to try on me! it isn't for sale. but if you wanted one, van cleef and arpels will gladly sell you a brand new replica for a mere $196,000. >> reporter: this is david turecamo. the french didn't invent lingerie but look at what they've done with it. >> for example, this typically is a little bow that you can just pick it up and play. we always make it like a game between the woman and the man. in intimacy. >> reporter: well, if you're used to paying $20 for lingerie at a discount store, let me explain something. worldwide lingerie is a multi-billion dollar industry. but french women on a per capita basis spend more on it than women in any other country in the world. it's part of their mystique. >> they're really beautiful. >> reporter: and this lingerie is among the most luxurious in france. the company and the brand director is claire mason. >> you always have details so a man can look at his woman and see like a little bow, a little hole. also little details. >> reporter: here at the company headquarters they design and assemble the prototypes. one bra can involve at least 20 pieces. each of which is designed not only for fashion but comfort. and it's not because everyone has a day off when i was shooting, no. each one of these machines is designed for a specific stitch. most of these women have gone to special schools couture because the lace has to be aligned. there's a skill just to cutting the fabric. it can take as long as two years to go from the concept to the consumer. also keep in mind that one design has to fit 19 different sizes. >> and for the biggest sizes, we have both kinds. so the back of the bra is larger for the bigger sizes. and the straps are larger. >> reporter: the egyptians supposedly originated it but it evolved over the century lingerie design spoke more about a culture's interest than the woman's. 19th century core sets were so tight they could actually damage the kidneys. even though an american patented the first bra in the early 20th centuries by the time feminists started burning them in the '60s bras were still just underwear. >> the notion of fashion wasn't in lingerie. it was only in clothes. >> reporter: in the 1980s that lingerie added.... >> more color, more details and much more feminine. so it looks good on our body. >> reporter: what happened in the '0s? >> girl power. it's the '80s. >> reporter: society's attitudes were changing and so was the technology. fabrics like spandex created new possibilities and advertising began daring.... >> to show the sensuality, the femininity and the french way of loving with the humor. >> reporter: and yet one of the company's most popular designs is often the first bra for a teenager. >> sometimes they come to us with their mothers and they buy this one. >> reporter: so small and yet so expensive because this bra retails for 90 euros. that's about $120. >> it's like jewels. i mean it's the same thing. it depends on what the material you use. we use what is the best. >> reporter: 09 euro. >> yeah, when it's your mother who will buy it. >> reporter: (laughing) >> osgood: next, building a better dog house. ,,,,,,,,,,,, >> osgood: like many of the interior flurishs at the miller house the doll house was the craft work of a late legendary designer alexander gerard. a small home in style. just like the houses our serena altschul has been to visit. >> reporter: you may have been in the dog house once upon a time but chances are it wasn't like this one. >> well, we started using two curves. then we created this sort of basic form. >> reporter: this dog house was designed by architect trent cash of kohn peterson fox in new york city to mimic the circular movement of a dog as it curls up to sleep. he says dogs are great clients. >> they're very good. they can't really speak back. they can't give you other directions which is good. but they need to... they need light. they need air. they need a shelter. they need all of the basic things that everybody needs. >> reporter: dog houses used to be the essential emblem of middle class sub urban life, a refrigerator in the kitchen, and by the fence a dog house. but as the suburbs grew, so did the dog houses. today some people even write books about architecture and it comes in just about every breed. from a classical to modern. post modern. to just weird. from pre-fab to plain fabulous. brian piccard designed this post modern dog house as an homage to the work of architect mario botau, one of a series of architect inspired houses that piccard is working on. >> with the economy and the people who really really love modern architecture, con temperatureary architecture may not be able to afford to do a really really great modern house. they can afford a little piece of mini-modern architecture. >> reporter: still custom dog houses can be expensive. this one went for more than $1,000. you say bowser is constantly on the move? consider this. classic camper. but why should dogs have all the fun? these feline furnishings are the cat's meow. scratchers with style. high-tech litter boxes. pet perches. it all takes design to a new level. >> dogs are very transportable. cats are not. cats really need to stay at home. that's where they're more comfortable. >> reporter: kate benjamin blogs about the latest pet products on modern cat dot-net from her mid century modern home in phoenix arizona using her nine cats as guinea pigs. she says that when it comes to style, there's only one animal that really counts. >> i think the cat really are fine with a cardboard box and a paper bag but modern cat is about accommodating both the owner's design sensibility as well as the cat's needs. >> reporter: but if neither cats nor dogs are your cup of tea, take a look at these elegant german-designed guinea pig houses. ventilation? >> these are ventilation panels, a luxury loft floor to ceiling windows, full amenities with all the latest green technology snrlt it's a chicken coop designed by architect james ramy. >> we like to call it the chicken co--op because it is a chicken coop but at the same time it's a luxury residence for poultry. there's a parameter by which you can judge your success and that is, is it happily laying eggs? >> reporter: do they? >> so far all of them are laying away. >> reporter: one of ramsay's several thousand dollar coops can be found on a terrace overlooking none other than new york's central park. >> that chicken coop may actually be nicer than my own house. >> osgood: still to come, clothes made the woman. designer diane von furstenberg. >> reporter: do people actually use these on golf courses. >> yes, these are approved for golf courses. >> osgood: par for the course. >> osgood: i was a soda jerk in my day once upon a time. those were the days. ice cream parlor and soda fountain in old time columbus indiana landmark restored to its original 1900 design. we're told that nobody knows that better than the one our anthony mason has been to visit. >> very nice. thank you. >> reporter: she's someone who really needs no introduction s. >> where are you from? >> nice to meet you. >> reporter: when diane von furstenberg dropped in to her flagship new york store unannounceded one day last spring, it was packed with customers from different cities and different countries. >> germany. >> kuwait. >> spain. where are you from? >> yerm knee. >> the united nations here. >> reporter: at 65, after nearly 40 years in business, the legendary designer is hot again. you like what you see today? >> i like what i see today but it's always nice. always pleasant. >> reporter: after losing much of her name sake business in the '80s, diane von furstenberg has rebuilt her company into a multimillion dollar fashion empire selling everything a woman could want from head to toe. not bad for someone who never learned to sew. diane halfin was born in brussels the daughter of a business executive and a holocaust survivor. in 1969 after becoming pregnant she married her boyfriend. the glamorous young couple moved to america and dazzled new york society. >> he was good looking and rich and everything. for anybody it's the end of the fairy tale. for me it was the beginning of the fairy tale. >> reporter: the new princess craved independence. so von furstenberg began designing dresses. in 1974, she hit upon a simple frock that would become her legacy. the wrap dress. >> this was a picture that i took when i was 23 years old. this was my very first dress. and i took a little ad in woman's world to announce that i was in business. >> reporter: was she ever! by 1976, she had sold millions of wrap dresses and made the cover of "newsweek". her marriage ended. but the dress has endured. the current first lady has even worn won in a white house christmas card. even you were impressed by that. >> i am still impressed as i'm telling you. >> reporter: has the success of that dress taught you anything yourself about design. >> the success of that dress has taught me everything i know. about design, about women, about life because that dress has paid for everything i've done in my life. i remember when that dress happened. i didn't think that much of it. that dress just taught me everything. >> reporter: she's also learned how to navigate the trickier parts of her life. you said, "i don't particularly like to be married." >> you know, it's very funny. marriage was never a destination for me. it was not like i wanted to get married. >> reporter: but after a decade her marriage to media mowing you will barry diller is still strong. >> barry is clearly the man of my life because he's been in my life for 37 years. he's been everything. he's been my lover. he's been my friend. and now he's my husband. >> reporter: you've kind of made peace with marriage. >> yes. so actually today i say proudly i am married and i call barry my husband. and i don't resent it. i'm actually at peace. >> reporter: that's a ringing endorsement. >> she's happy but hardly at rest. >> reporter: von furstenberg recently introduced a new home fashion line. now she'll dress your table too. >> look at this beautiful bowl in lacker. >> reporter: it's not your grandmother's china. each piece designed to look like it's been picked up from a different exotic low cal. >> look at this. tell me if these glasses are not great. >> reporter: and then. >> we can go to the bed if you want. >> reporter: there's the von furstenberg bed. >> i mean, what is more important than your bed? everything that happens in your life happens in your bed. you dream in your bed. you're born in your bed. you're conceived in bed hopefully. so i mean, you know, bed is super important. why can't you decorate your bed? >> reporter: you're expanding. >> yes. expanding organically. >> reporter: but for now the company fortunes are still wrapped up in one legendary product. do you ever get tired of it? >> how can you be tired of something that has made so many women happy? i mean, i am surprised. i am astounded. i am more surprised of its success today than i was the first time around. but i am not tired of it. i'm not tired of who i am. that would be sad. >> osgood: next gardens that rock. when you've lost interest in everything. when you've had one too many days feeling sad or anxious... aches and pains, fatigue. when it becomes hard to ignore that you need help. that's the day you do something. depression hurts. cymbalta can help with many symptoms of depression. tell your doctor right away if your depression worsens, you have unusual changes in behavior or thoughts of suicide. antidepressants can increase these in children, teens, and young adults. cymbalta is not approved for children under 18. people taking maois or thioridazine or with uncontrolled glaucoma should not take cymbalta. taking it with nsaid pain relievers, aspirin, or blood thinners may increase bleeding risk. severe liver problems, some fatal, were reported. signs include abdominal pain and yellowing of the skin or eyes. talk with your doctor about your medicines, including those for migraine, or if you have high fever, confusion and stiff muscles, to address a possible life-threatening condition. tell your doctor about alcohol use, liver disease, and before you reduce or stop taking cymbalta. dizziness or fainting may occur upon standing. side effects include nausea, dry mouth, and constipation. is today your day? 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>> well, i keep thinking they're smiling at me and not the cart. >> everybody i see that's cute (whistle) >> reporter: jeannenet and frank own his and hers golf carts. when bob, the head drill master, and his wife marilyn need a bottle of wine, they hop in their flamed hot ro ♪ round, round, get around ♪ i get around . >> reporter: tony, known as the golf cart man, will make whatever you want. at prices ranging from around $6,000 to more than $20,000. >> this is a hummer. >> reporter: do people actually use these on golf courses? >> these are approved for golf courses. >> reporter: really? >> yes. >> reporter: what kind of accessories to do people want? >> most of them want the big stereo systems. the high torque motors. >> reporter: is is this an air conditioner. >> it's called air breeze. >> reporter: tony's current favorite is a cadillac escalade. >> it has a gps and so when he's playing golf.... >> reporter: he knows how far it is to the hole. >> right. >> reporter: this is a beauty here. >> this is a '57 chevy. >> reporter: some of these are cars that people wanted when they were kids. >> this is putting people back in the days that they really liked. ♪ all you want to do is ride around ♪ >> reporter: (bill singing) the driver is robin. the mustang is sally. ♪ ride, sally ride. >> you're good. back in superior wisconsin i watched all the mustangs go by and i thought some day. >> reporter: this dream careen sounds like a hot rod. even got the rumble. this is bad. do you feel like a teenager again? 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