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good morning. i'm jane pauley and this is a special edition of "sunday morning." a "sunday morning by design." it's 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. it's a reminder how design in ways large and small is everywhere. and we'll 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 that's exactly what some tech billionaires in california are

trying to figure out. but how they're going about it is raising some eyebrows. >> reporter: if you build it, they will come. at least that's 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 america's favorite roommates in the hit tv series "friends." these days, jonathan vigliotti explains, courtney cox has designs on your living quarters. >> reporter: when courtney cox's 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 must-have accessory. with kelefa sanneh, we go behind closed doors. >> this ain't 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: it's coming up. let's 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. you've heard the saying a man's home is his castle? sometimes seth doane discovers, it really is. serena altschul surveys the front lines of stroller wars, a competition that's anything but child's play. nancy giles shows us why tie-dye, 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. we'll have a tea party with martha stewart and more all on our "sunday morning" by design. we'll 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. >> it's 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 times" conor 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 horowitz venture capital firm, a who's who of silicon valley was involved. >> reporter: something else surprising. within hours of dougherty's big scoop, this mysterious company launched a website and publicly identified itself as california forever, an ambitious plan to build a brand-new 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

37-year-old czech-born 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 isn't just an oasis for billionaires or some high-tech 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 york's 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, let's create a place where we can send them to solano county. >> place where our children's future can be bright. walkable middle class neighborhoods with homes we can afford. >> reporter: the project's fate will ultimately be decided this november by the voters of solano

county who have to decide whether or not to overturn a three-decades-old law restricting where new development can go. >> we are going to have total gridlock. you need to work on your soft skills. don't insult us. >> reporter: jan sramek's charm offensive has been met with, let's 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 hold-outs here. most of their neighbors have sold to california forever at far over market value. but they've turned down millions to keep farming this 37-hundred acre ranch which has been in jeannie's 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 didn't 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 times" conor 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 don't think it's 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 nation's most unaffordable and car-centric state is, in fact, possible. he says his company has the know-how, 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 first-day fresh for 50 days. 50 days!? and its refill reminder light means i'll never miss a day of freshness. ♪ wow. -incredible, isn't it? -yeah. means i'll never miss a day of freshness. well, with your home, auto, boat and rv all bundled with progressive you've 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. let's hit the road. hey fam! i'm just at this beautiful lake that i just discovered. practicing gratitude, manifesting abundance.

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here begins something new. >> for 45 years, "sunday morning's" set created by legendary cbs designer victor paganuzzi has served as our backdrop. but for this year's 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, it's really about celebrating a sense of ritual. >> reporter: david rockwell is the firm's 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 hollywood's 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 can't always replicate that, but it's not a bad place to start. >> reporter: it's not all glitzy restaurants and luxury hotels.

this children's 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: rockwell's 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. it's partially built, not because it's in ruins, but because it's 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 don't speak about castle world. >> reporter: a cathedral would have been more complicated. >> yes. >> reporter: co-founder 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. what's 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. >> it's 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 what's 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 france's king philip ii, and 800 years later it's fostering a new generation of specialist artisans. who notre dame burned in paris, workers came from the castle to help and share expertise. what's the bigger value to this project? >> it's very green. we take nature, trees, sand, stone, and we do a medieval castle, but we can imagine to take the same materials to do a house. it's a modern adventure. >> reporter: it's a modern adventure building skills and realizing a dream by looking back to the design and ways of another time.

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store in new jersey -- >> you can take it outdoor -- >> reporter: it's about finding folks the smoothest ride. it's 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

first-time mom aniyah kozart. >> i want something that will look good. that's 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 it's got to be almost transparent to the user. it can do this, but you don't need to know about it until you need it. this is exactly what we want people to do. >> reporter: trung phung is a designer and president at uppababy near boston where they are not only creating products, but pushing their limits. >> it has to sit on this treadmill for 40 hours continuous. at the end, everything has to workers' party. >> reporter: should youthere ar service centers. how do we know when a baby is comfortable? >> the parents say they put the child into the product and the child starts crying, that's a bad sign. >> reporter: it can't be the stroller? hopefully, not.

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throughout the morning, our susan spencer is all about fun and games. first up, word play. >> reporter: for millions of americans, morning means breakfast, coffee, and most importantly, wordle. >> i mean, my wordle is usually done in the first ten minutes of consciousness. >> yeah, some people play our puzzles the minute they come out. >> reporter: everdeen mason is the editorial director of the "new york times" games. >> this has a good amount of space. >> reporter: zoe bell is its executive producer. what do people think when you tell them what you do for a living? >> it is a cocktail party winner. >> reporter: wordle, the brainchild of software engineer josh wardle, was acquired by "the new york times" in 2022. a year later, it was played 4.8 billion times. >> tens of millions of people

are playing every day. >> reporter: okay. let's see what happens. >> oh! >> reporter: absolutely nothing. that's the worst possible result. if you are late to the game, here's how it works. e each day there is a five-letter mystery word. you get six chances to figure it out. with each guess you learn if your letters are wrong, right, or right, but in the wrong spot. can you put your finger on what it is in the design of wordle that accounts for this astonishing success? >> you think about what happens with every guess in wordle, is you get new information and i think that's really compelling. then when you solve it, there is a really, really big moment of satisfaction. >> reporter: tell me about it. >> yeah. >> reporter: depends how soon you solve it. >> might be a lot of other things, too. >> reporter: okay. so what's the foolproof strategy for doing that? >> some people have the same word every single day. >> reporter: is that a good idea? >> it can be. i mean, especially if you pick

one with a lot of vowels afrmt adieu is the first most popular guess. here is depressing news. statistically, adieu does not yield the best results. >> i think that the starting word is important, but so is the second word because if you have a good starting word and then you blow it by not eliminating other letters in the second-guess, you will be at five or six. >> reporter: this is the genius of its design. >> right, yes. >> reporter: a genius that's made wordle a national phenomenon. >> one lousy t. >> reporter: at breakfast tables everywhere. ♪ ♪

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design. lee cowan takes the wheel. ♪ >> reporter: designing the impossible starts with the practical. and the visual can become visceral. >> oh, listen to that downshift. oh, yeah. we haven't even got warmed up yet. >> reporter: the hennessey venom f5 hennessey. it's not a sports car, not a supercar, it's a hyper car. it's a machine that shuns the mundane. it's twin turbo v8 can muster more than 1,800 horsepower. >> all right. ready? 160, whoa! >> i'm being cautious.

>> reporter: john hennessey's goal is to design the fastest production car in the world, meaning a vehicle people can actually drive on actual city streets. >> it's 300 miles an hour, is that your white whale? >> yeah, i guess i am crazy. as crazy as captain ahab. >> reporter: his competition, ferrari, pegani, koenigsegg and more. legends with racing pedigrees. but the hennessey f5 is not built in europe. it comes from the heart of texas. about an hour west of houston. >> i think that that's just that balsey texas grit of we believe we can do it. we are not here just to compete. we are here to win. >> reporter: each is built by hand. there is no assembly line. hennessey's garage looks like an operating room. >> it's pretty much a hobby that got out of control. >> reporter: he has been tuning cars since he was a kid. building his own pranbrand from

wheels up had dead end written all over it. >> many people try. not many people succeed. >> reporter: the f5's lead designer nathan malinick was uniquely qualified. >> i was designing jets before coming here. >> reporter: the laws of physics can create some truly beautiful things. in the f5 case it starts where the car meets the air. >> it really acts very similar to an airplane wing, just in the other direction. >> reporter: reverse? >> yeah, we don't want to go up. we want to stay on the ground. >> reporter: wind is an enemy and a friend. everything about the f5 is designed to use air to cool its massive engine. right down to the taillights that help pull heat away. >> you just built the taillights around a vent? >> yeah. >> that is so cool. >> reporter: and then there is the cockpit. >> not bad, right? >> not bad. great. >> if you look at the dash in the car in general, it's very refined and simplified. there is no buttons anywhere. >> reporter: like a fine suit,

it's a truly bespoke automobile. thousands of items could be customized for the customer. which is probably why it carries its $3 million price tag. nobody really needs a car like this, right? >> no. you can buy a people mover for 35 to $40,000. so i would argue that every dollar spent over $40,000 is based on emotion, based on passion, based on entertainment. >> reporter: the f5 isn't practical or affordable. dreams rarely are. european designers have chased the speed record for years, but now there is a new horse in the race and it's as scrappy as they come. >> did you feel like you were the underdog when you entered into this? >> we were all about being the underdog. >> reporter: you like that? >> i love the underdog. >> reporter: that's what hyper car design is all about. tweaking the best to make it better. hennessey hasn't even reached its goal yet, and still it's already getting customers the

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>> reporter: meet anthony holand, who you might say owes his career to a shark. just like this one. the 50th anniversary version of the original that appeared in the movie "jaws," which was shot here on the island of martha's vineyard in 1974. there it is. that spec on top of quint's shack, in case you missed it. islanders got a look and suddenly wanted sharks of their own. so, travis tuck, who had been working as a welder on the film and got paid $150 to make that first shark, found himself in business. after "jurassic park," steven speilberg even ordered a velociraptor. enter anthony holand. in 1997, as a summer apprentice, did you understand instantly that this would be your life's calling? >> i didn't. i thought this is a great

opportunity. let's see where it takes me. >> reporter: by 2001, when he and travis tuck made a ten-foot-long nittany lion, penn state university's mascot, holand knew the answer. he took over the workshop when tuck died in 2002. what's vane. >> it comes from fane, which is the angelo saxon word for flag. >> reporter: the early just recorded weathervane was this one from 48 bce in ancient athens. about the time they were no longer needed to predict weather, to guide ships, or as recognizable branding, weathervanes became attractive to collectors and thieves. this century-old locomotive sat on top of the train station in white river junction, vermont, until it was stolen in 1983.

it was finally returned last week after showing up at a new york city auction house. >> you want to take it you up to that dull red without going past. >> reporter: to make a weathervane, anthony holand heats up copper so it becomes pliable. then he hammers it into shape by hand. the art and the craft. he has a two to three-year waiting list for custom weathervanes, most of what he does. and they're expensive. >> this started out as a 32-inch weathervane and turned into an 11-foot seahorse. >> reporter: wow! it costs well into six figures, and took over a year to construct. holand is widely considered the country's finest weathervane maker.

>> the bhutanese dragon was for a client whose mother was the best friends with the queen of bhutan. >> reporter: he made a school of fish. >> it actual swims in the wind as the wind blows. >> reporter: these elephants to match someone's well-loved piece of jewelry. and just look at this. >> the city owner was that, he owned a satellite at the time. he was one of the first cellphone providers. we went all the way back with mercury and the brick phone. >> reporter: whatever a customer wants. for anthony holand, that's the fun of it. >> i would say the most successful weathervanes that i produce tell a story. i think americans, we love a good story, right?

thousands of years ago artists in india decorated clothes for special occasions using tie-dye, which is to say the colorful technique existed long before woodstock. nancy giles on tie-dye then and now. >> what's important here is gathering the fabric. >> reporter: austin mackereth is in a groove. >> it keeps me very present. i'm always in the moment. >> reporter: his twists, scrunches, and ties transform into perfect pockets for a tie-dye kaleidoscope of colors. >> it's controlled chaos. >> reporter: his intricate works can take up to 30 hours to create.

>> so this is what it looks like super wet. when it's dry it's going to lighten up a lot. >> reporter: oh, man! he releases a hand of shirts online every week. they sell for hundreds to thousands of dollars. >> they usually sell out within a couple of, like, seconds. like 30 seconds. >> reporter: what? how does that make you feel? >> i'm extremely grateful. >> reporter: in 2015, he was recovering from substance abuse in a halfway house. a roommate brought back a tie-dye kit. mackereth says it saved his life. what was it about tie-dye that grabbed you? >> in the very beginning, you don't really know what, how it's going to turn out. you are waiting an entire day, essentially, to open it up, and you are just so excited to see what it's going to be like. of it's like this dopamine rush. i always equate it to christmas morning. >> reporter: oh! that rush goes way, way back.

>> this is a very long history, and longer than we can know because the thing about fabric is that it disintegrates. >> reporter: shabd simon-alexander is an artist and the author of a book about the art of tie-dye, which she says is thousands of years old. did different cultures specifically tie-dye in different distinct ways? >> each culture tie-dyes in a way that reflects their own materials and aesthetic preferences. >> reporter: alexander the great mentioned beautiful printed cottons in india in 327 b.c. and some of the earliest known pieces come from peru. as for tie-dye's popularity in the united states, simon-alexander says it took off in the 1950s and '60s for a few reasons. >> one was the invention of cold water fiber reactive dyes, which meant that people could tie-dye at home much more easily.

>> reporter: that and woodstock in 1969, which saw performers like janis joplin and joe cocker donning dyed designs. what's the appetite for it these days? everybody's going crazy. >> reporter: at tipsy tie-dye in new jersey, siblings and co-owners kevin and katie tague host events where you tie-dye and im you bieb. >> we tie it in such a way, the design will be set. we just have to color it all in. >> reporter: golly. i mean, the possibilities are endless. and you can't do it wrong. for austin mackereth, who has been able to make tie-dye his full-time job, he is just enjoying the colorful ride. >> there is times where i'm dyeing a piece until like 6:00 in the morning, having about been working on it since 8:00 a.m. the previous day. i am not upset i am having do that. it's like i got to get this this

done, it's going to be coo cool piece, it's totally going to be worth it. five and a half years ago, conor armstrong made a puzzling career change. >> how does a software engineer go to making jigsaw puzzles for a living? >> i made enough money and decided to quit. >> reporter: he had been around puzzles for years. >> worried about the time i gray father bought a scroll saw. i picked up on the technique. >> reporter: each piece is designed and cut by hand out of wood, mass marketed cardboard puzzles may be wildly popular, more than a billion are sold each other, but conrad isn't impress. >> once you go wooden, our don't go back to cardboard.

>> reporter: you say that with some disdain? >> a little bit. when you have access to a handmade unique wooden puzzle, a grid-based stamped out cardboard puzzle pales in comparison. two straight edges luook like these pieces. they actually form the corner. so there isn't one blockie corner piece. >> reporter: his designs include waterscapes, autumn scenes, even wedding presents. he has a waiting list of customers willing to shell out hundreds of dollars to watch wits with him -- >> they are from the state of massachusetts. >> reporter: where is massachusetts? and his carefully designed tricks. have you ever designed a puzzle that turned out to be impossible? >> no. if people stick through it long enough, they will eventually solve it. >> reporter: how long is long enough? >> time and pace, yes. if you have a table that's separate from the table that you need to eat on -- >> reporter: you leave there? >> for weeks and months if you

need to. >> reporter: don't get too attached to the finished product. >> a couple times people asked what kind of glue can they use and i cringe at that. >> reporter: have you ever considered requiring a no-glue contract or anything? >> no, that's a good idea. >> reporter: clearly, designing a good puzzle is an intense business with each resulting piece its own little work of he art.

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little more seriously. she talking with our jonathan vigliotti. >> yeah. that's pretty. >> reporter: dressed in black, on the white sands of miami beach, courtney cox strikes a pose during a recent photo shoot. >> gorgeous, yeah, beautiful. >> reporter: the camera is on her, but she is the one hyperfocused. >> i always say it's called i suffer from acute awareness. i do notice things. i can't help it. >> reporter: i was afraid you would notice a few things if i was disheveled. >> i would notice. you're pretty together. yeah, yeah. is that a built-in cuff? >> reporter: it is. >> i like it. >> reporter: it's not attention to detail that in part inspired the neat freak to create a new line of scented beauty products for the home fittingly called home court. >> it is a combination of everything from surface spray to clean your surfaces, your countertops, your whatever.

it is hand soap, hand cream, dish soap, room deodorizer. >> reporter: courtney cox, you can choose to put your name on anything. why did you focus on home court? and cleaning products? >> you know, i played that character monica, and that was -- >> reporter: oh, that character? >> yeah, that character. >> look at her. so happy. >> reporter: oh, yeah, that character. monica geller. >> if only there were a smaller one to clean this one. >> reporter: at times ironic always lovable new yorker. >> it just got interesting. >> she was a neat person. guess who else is? me. >> reporter: home court is a full circle moment for the 59-year-old alabama native. cox studied design and architecture in college before deciding to pursue a very different creative career. >> i moved to new york. i started modeling. i am only 5'5", but i did stuff like book covers. >> reporter: like short hair on one of the book covers i saw. >> i got my haircut really short

and changed my whole look. >> reporter: next, the first of a few big breaks. >> could you believe that's 40 years ago? >> reporter: no. it's wild. when cox was chosen to appear with bruce springsteen in the 1984 music video for "dancing in the dark." >> it was directed by brian de palma, and i guess he hired me because i was authentically nervous and genuinely not a good cancer, but i was shy and it worked. >> can i help you? >> hello. i was speaking. >> reporter: it worked wind remembers with cox landing a recurring role on "family ties." >> the miss america contest. >> you know that's political. >> reporter: what was michael j. fox like to work with? >> the nicest guy. he is so talented. he taught me so much. >> reporter: then, in 1994, the

show about a group of 20-somethings in the city. a series that changed everything. >> that show, thank god for that show. >> reporter: how did that come to be? >> that was at the tail end of when i was getting -- running out of money. i got an audition. i went in and read the pilot. i said, this is great. but you didn't know how special it was. but then when you put this cast together, incredible writers, it was lightning in a bottle. >> 42 to 21, light the turkey, ross is done. >> reporter: lightning in a bottle, that launched a meteoric career. from the screen film franchise and "ace ventura" to "cougar town" to becoming a producer, director, and entrepreneur. through it all, cox has remained herself, caring, candid, and

deeply empathic. she still is very close to the co-stars that were with her when it all began. hard to believe it's been 30 years since it premiered. 20 years since the last episode. you went on instagram and said that you were forever grateful. what are you forever grateful for? >> i don't want one of those people that cry. that's so -- i hate that. i don't know. i am grateful that i had that opportunity to work with such wonderful people and to live the life i have now. that was my family. i mean, we went through everything. those ten years were everything. and just made -- they are my family. >> how did you get to be so cute? >> my grandfather was swedish and my grandmother was actually a tiny little bunny. >> reporter: you reflected on instagram about matthew perry, a member of your family. >> mm-hmm. >> reporter: matthew perry, who played chandler bing, died last year at 54.

what stands out most in your life? what kind of impact did he have? >> i think he is probably one of the funniest human beings in the world. he, you know, he is just so funny. he is genuinely a huge heart. obviously, struggled. i am so thank you i got to work so closely with him so many years. he visits me a lot, if we believe in that. >> reporter: i know you are a spiritual person, which makes that statement very interesting. you still feel his rpresence? >> oh, yeah. i talk to my mom, my dad, matthew. i feel like there are a lot of people that are -- i think that guide us. i do sense, yeah, i sense matthew is around for sure. >> reporter: friends are always close by. jennifer aniston and lisa kudrow were with cox when she was honored with a star on the

hollywood walk of fame and jokingly cox couldn't resist giving it a little polish. and it's that shine that she hopes to share with home court. >> we don't think of our home as an extension of us. but it is. how much time do we spend at h home? why skimp on the things that are so important? i think people should treat their home the way they treat themselves. this is the one i told you is like a real rose. you can smell it in the room. >> reporter: yeah. >> can you smell how much it smells like a rose? >> reporter: english rose, yeah. like smelling a rose. really does. >> yeah. >> reporter: i am not paid for this, so. >> whether i am working or not working, it's another creative outlet. i care about every detail. it's a passion.

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in bathrooms across america, there is a new must-have feature. kelefa sanneh takes us behind closed doors. >> reporter: architect stephanie goto designed galleries, restaurants and homes all over the world. in all of them, there is one room she never overlooks. >> it's a place of spiritual repose. >> reporter: a bathroom, she says, should be effortless and elegant. >> people understand by seeing my work that there is a real attention to detail. >> reporter: in every room? >> in every room. so i then their expectation is that i will be thinking about the bathroom as in detail as everything else in their home.

>> reporter: increasingly, that means not just the toilet, but the bidet. >> it's life changing. it's something i can't live without. >> reporter: is it a status symbol the way a viking stove might be? >> i would say because the intention to design, it probably does make it something like having a beautiful scarf. >> reporter: according to a recent yougov poll, nearly half of americans either have or would like to have a bidet at home. i have never been saluted by a toilet before. the idea behind a bidet is simple. instead of wiping, washing and drying. bidets are common in asia, but only just catching on here, helped along by the great toilet paper panic of 2020. that seems like an extreme reaction to say there is no toilet paper at the supermarket, i am going to install a bidet in

my house. >> you would think so. toilet paper sold out in two and a half weeks. everyone began to look for the alternative. the alternative became the bidet. >> reporter: bill strang is head of if global strategy at toto, the global leader in bidet sales. >> it's a reverse toilet. instead of the water going down, it goes up. is it an acquired taste. >> the first time, oh, that's pretty nice. >> reporter: here's how it works. >> this is an occupancy sensor. this knows if you are there or not. it will allow you to press the button to allow the wand to work. >> reporter: the world's most popular bidet is toto's washlet which starts at $350 and attaches to a conventional toilet. other versions are more luxurious. >> you can actually turn on features here that allow you to oscillate and pulsate the water. >> reporter: oh, which made us wond wonder how is the water pressure? >> there it goes! >> reporter: my gosh.

>> heated seats, too. >> reporter: toto's top of the line bidet celebrated by dj khaled is neorest. is that expensive? >> no, that means rest. >> reporter: happens to be expensive? >> that's right. >> reporter: what am i looking at for one of these. >> $20,000. >> reporter: $20,000? this one doesn't just lclean yo. it cleans itself, too. looks like a pod. >> it does look like a pod. >> reporter: architect stephanie goto sometimes builds a hole bathroom around it. >> i am working on a project now using traditional hand crafted tiles with a modern toilet. >> reporter: one of these looks like a futuristic pod. >> it is a bit of a futuristic pod, and it talks you to. >> reporter: i don't want feedback from my toilet. just do your job. >> your toilet is your friend. >>. >> reporter: some friendships take time. i am not used to asking all these questions about a toilet. >> i think we are toilet'd out.

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just a little bit. and then the tea. and pour through a little tea strainer, if you have one. this catches any of the excess tea leaves. mmm, does that look good. so, now for the tea sandwiches. and they are very beautiful. this is a more complex operation. now, get very thinly sliced bread. very important. this is a cream cheese that's very room temperature. so it's soft. and it's spreadable. we are going to overlap the cucumbers like this. cut the crusts off. if yo you don't want crusts in tea sandwiches. inappropriate. so beautiful. cucumber, cream cheese, canape. very pretty. now, on a dark bread like this, i love this dark pumpernickel. spread some may owe and we have

some shrimp salad. how beautiful this is. you cut it this way. into diamonds. and on the shrimp i thought i would put a little bit of trout caviar. look how gorgeous that looks. wouldn't you be happy with a bite of that? the last one i want to show you how to make because it's so graphic and pretty is the aspa asparagus sandwich. spread the cream cheese on thinly suppliesed beard, salted boiling water, and watch until they are this done. let the tips hang over because they are not part of the design. don't forget the zest with lemon. you can see how beautiful the asparagus are. now, that is a designed sandwich. i want to taste it. mmm, superb.

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conor knighton has a close-up look at the cutting-edge tool for any occasion. >> reporter: it takes a multitude of tools to make a multi-tool. inside this sprawling 100,000 square foot factory in portland, oregon, raw steel is shaped and sharpen in saws and blades and pliers. all designed to fit into a pocket-sized package. >> everywhere i look, it's like tools making other tools. >> yeah and we make the tools to make the tool. >> reporter: ben rivera is the ceo of leatherman, a company that specializes in designing multi-tools. foldable jacks of many trades and many blades. >> we are trying to squeeze every ounce of performance in every inch of space out of the tool to make it so compact and high-performing as possible. >> reporter: leatherman has been making versions of these handhe

handheld hardware stores for 40 years. they claim one in 11 americans owns one, ranging in price from 50 to $230, some are souped up, some are stripped down, some are personalized, but all are a simple by hand and stamped with the founder's name. i did not know that leatherman is a man, that it's you? >> lots of people are surprised that leatherman isn't a 100-year-old company that was originally start in the leather working business. >> reporter: in 1975, tim leatherman was driving across europe with his wife in a $300 fee at that needed frequent repairs. >> i was carrying a pocket knife but there are oftentimes i needed a pair of pliers. particularly with we stayed in a cheap hotel and the bathroom plumbing needed fixing. >> reporter: once the leathermans returned to the u.s., tim decided put his engineering degree to use and see if he could somehow combine a pocket knife with pliers. with his wife's blessing, he started tinkering. >> she went to work to support us and i went to the garage and

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monopoly is now the top-selling modern board game of all time. baker says it is all in the design. >> a lot of the elements of the board are timeless, they are iconic. everything from the go space to free parking. >> reporter: design isn't just about looks. it's also about action. baker calls it replayability, the most important design element for a game's success. >> one the great things about monopoly is that in any given game, anyone can be the winner. >> reporter: or the loser. i had a relative who always invariably would burst into tears every time we play before the game was over. >> absolutely. it's not uncommon for somebody to end up flipping the board over and having the tokens fly all over the place. >> reporter: this is what you want? >> yes. that's why people want to play. >> reporter: sadistic, isn't it? >> it could be, but we call it competition. >> reporter: of course you do.

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"sunday morning: by design." please join us when our trumpet sounds again. ♪ some say things are never gonna change ♪ ♪ others say they're gonna get better ♪ ♪ me i'm standing in the rain waiting for a change in the weather ♪ ♪ i'm not saying how i think it should be ♪ ♪ all i'm saying is don't look right to me ♪ ♪ i'm gonna try to find a new design ♪ ♪ i'm gonna try to find new design ♪ i'm margaret brennan in washington and this is week on "face the nation," from the courtroom to the campaign trail. election 2024 is in full swing. crisscrossing key states, former president trump and president biden spen the weekend rallying