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{{Short description|Industrially manufactured object with timeless aesthetic value}}
A '''design classic''' is an industrially manufactured object with timeless aesthetic value. It serves as a standard of its kind and remains up to date regardless of the year of its design.
Whether a particular object is a [[Design|design]] classic might often be debatable<ref>{{cite web|last=Campbell|first=Emily|title=Design Classics: unequivocal, tangible, iconic?|url=http://designandsociety.wordpress.com/2009/01/20/design-classics-unequivocal-tangible-iconic/|access-date=22 September 2011|date=20 January 2009}}</ref>  and the term is sometimes abused<ref name="independent">{{cite web|title=What makes a design classic?|last=Bayley|first=Stephen|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/what-makes-a-design-classic-1115520.html|work=The Independent|access-date=22 September 2011|date=27 August 1999}}</ref> 
but there exists a body of acknowledged classics of product designs from the 19th and 20th century.
<ref>{{cite web|last=Hill|first=David|date=12 September 2006|url=http://www.luckylandconsulting.com/what-makes-a-design-classic/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161023143519/https://www.luckylandconsulting.com/what-makes-a-design-classic/|title=What Makes a Design Classic?|archive-date=23 October 2016}}</ref>
<ref>{{cite web|last=Glancey|first=Jonathan|title=Stamps of approval: British design classics|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2009/jan/13/stamps-british-design-classics|work=The Guardian|access-date=22 September 2011|date=13 January 2009}}</ref> 
For an object to become a design classic requires time,<ref name="independent" /> and whatever lasting impact the design has had on society, together with its influence on later designs, play large roles in determining whether something becomes a design classic. Thus, design classics are often strikingly simple, going to the essence, and are described with words like ''iconic'', ''neat'', ''valuable'' or ''having meaning''.<ref name="independent" />
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