Interiors were characterized by the economical and innovative use of standard industrial products like aluminum pipe, factory lighting, and warehouse shelving with chemical and pharmaceutical glass and ceramic accessories. (You wouldn't want what your parents liked anyway.) The machine aesthetic of modernism was remade into an industrial arte povera of "found" components for the look that became known and celebrated as High Tech.

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Two hours drive away in Kulgaon, TU Shenava faces similar problems at his pipe-making factory.

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It concluded water seeping from the cliff face had most likely leaked from a pipe from the nearby McCain factory.

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