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His work, including the cushiony 1963 leather Elda chair and the 1969 Tube chair, made from four graduated cylinders wrapped in vinyl, was refined yet had a populist swagger that evoked the factory floor.

We head to lunch at this vegan spot, Casa de Luz, then back home to unpack the remaining spirits, plus my graduated cylinders, beakers, scales and other tools.

A laboratory it is, but one without beakers, graduated cylinders or the smell of chemicals.

Modern booze, it turns out, is increasingly approached with lab coats and graduated cylinders.

The gas is measured in the graduated cylinder on the right, which is surrounded by a water jacket and provided with a levelling bottle.