captioning made possible by johnson & johnson, where quality products for the american family have been a tradition for generations >> osgood: good morning. i'm charles osgood. and this is a special edition of "sunday morning." we are in newport, rhode island, at the historic breakers, by design. this 70-room cottage-- that's what they called it-- was built as a summer home for cornelius vanderbilt ii back in the 1890s. it is a prime example of

gilded-era architecture and design. of course, much of our focus this morning is going to be on modern design, including design on a more personal scale, ass can type of will explain in our cover story. >> like beyonce, kate hudson-- >> why would you want to look like everyone else? >> and martha teichner have in common? we are all part of the of athleisure explosion. now the star performer in u.s. apparel sales. just a fad or something else? athleisure ahead this "sunday morning." >> osgood: the tv show that jane pauley has been watching comes in.

>> finding hardwood under carpet. >> oh, my goodness. this makes me happy. >> that's what i do best. >> reporter: tv's capital of home renovation, waco, texas. where the fixer upper magic happens, with the magicians, chip and joanna gaines. ahead. >> on "sunday morning." >> osgood: not even a vanderbilt could squeeze a whole golf course into a seaside escape. when it comes to designing today's golf courses, a legendary golfer is more than willing to chip nas jim axelrod will now show us. >> absolutely perfect. >> reporter: jack nicklaus may very well be the greatest golfer ever to swing a club. >> i think this is too busy here. let's expand it. make sure we see water. >> reporter: and today, at the age of 76, he is also one of the game's most sought-after course designers. >> most people work all their way to retire to play golf.

well, i played golf all my life to retire to work. >> reporter: on the course with jack nicklaus, later on "sunday morning." >> osgood: from the stellar house of vanderbilt to the house of diker. dior. seth doane will be taking us to the south of france to visit the home of the legendary fashion designer, christian dior. >> reporter: when christian dior bought this house, he dreamed of creating a perfect retreat in the french countryside. today, that dream is alive and well. you've just seen the house. >> uh-huh. >> reporter: what do you think? >> it's unbelievable. it's breathtaking. >> reporter: later on "sunday morning," the house of dior. >> osgood: nancy giles gets a lesson in decorating with plant. ben tracy uncovers the art of the matchbox. lee cowan looks up the latest in skyscraper design. anthony mason stops off to chat with the man who redesigned

london's double-decker buses. we'll have much more besides. first, let's go to don dailier in the newsroom for the sunday morning headlines. >> reporter: good morning. it's august 14, 2016. it was a night of the protests in milwaukee. residents reacted with rocks, bricks, and fires after police shot and killed an armed man during a traffic stop. at least four businesses burned. three arrests were made. the coast guard has been busy around flood-ravaged baton rouge, louisiana. so far, 2,000 rescues and counting. at least three people have died. there's more rain expected in the central gulf coast today. rivers are expected to break previous records by several feet. michael phelpses has ended his olympic career the best way possible-- by winning. phelps and the relay team won their race last night. it was his 23rd gold medal. that's the most ever for a single olympian. >> it's not the end of a career. it's the beginning of a new

journey and just looking forward to that. >> reporter: the greatest of all time. actor kenny baker has died. his most famous role was one in which you never saw his face. >> he really is in tip-top condition. >> reporter: baker played r2-d2, in six "star wars films. he stood three feet eight inches tall. george lucus called him a real gentleman. flash flooding is possible from round of heavy rain expected to soak the southern plains, mississippi valley, and great lakes states. in the east, the heat and humidity is downright dangerous. for the week ahead, lots of storms, and hotter in the west. ♪ ♪ >> osgood: ahead, higher and thinner. >> this spot right here is just a little hot.

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>> osgood: we're in the great hall at the breakers. it is great, isn't it? you can well imagine cornelius vanderbilt ii dressed to the nines and welcoming his guests, all of them in the formal attire of the time. nowadays, martha teichner tells

us, casual is king. >> reporter: once upon a time, there was casual friday. now, it's more like casual 24/7. in cities and suburbs, coast to coast, for both men and women, you see it not just on the street, but in offices. if a billionaire c.e.o. like mark zuckerburg can wear his hoodie to work, why can't everybody else dress down? except now, it's about more than wearing jeans or something resembling pajamas. it's about workout clothes that have grown up. there's a name for her look-- besides gorgeous-- athleisure. with or without a body like beyonce's, in or out of the gym, americans-- american women especially-- have made it the

hottest thing in the apparel industry. >> as goes beyonce, so goes, i would say, any number of trends. >> that's going to be an image-driven story. >> reporter: robbie myers is editor-in-chief of "elle," which put beyonce, wearing her own athleisure clothing brand, on its may cover. >> being athletic and, like, going to yoga-- or whatever it is you do-- is actually a real part of these women's lives, and they like the way they look. they like the way they feel. >> reporter: what about people who never go near a gym but wear athleisure? >> the idea that americans want to be comfortable no matter what they do, certainly you know has permeated the culture. >> reporter: where did it all begin? myers has a theory. >> you may want to go back to jane fonda and the famous workout tape of 1982. >> are you ready to do the

workout? >> reporter: athleisure way before it was called that. in 1998, along came lululemon, with premium-priced yog apparel that took to the streets. which brings us to 2015. americans spent nearly $44 billion on so-called "active wear, up 16% over 2014. meanwhile, denim sales have taken a hit, down 5% or more every year since 2013. athleisure companies have caught the wave. companies such as el segundo, california-based fabletics, an athleisure line whose co-founder and inspiration is the actress kate hudson. see the leggings? they were the leg up that launched athleisure, for women,

anyway. >> it's a core essential style that the company was founded on. >> reporter: shaun kearney is head of design at fabletics. >> we update it in great colors, textures, prints. they create whole-themed war drobz. >> what's going to be the wow factor. >> reporter: it's fast fashion, from design to delivery, eight weeks. fabletics lives mostly online. paying subscribers get discounts. new collections are released the first of every month. but with plenty of incentives in between, to lure shoppers. feast your eyes on jamie and ken, brand ambassadors, doing

for the fabletics blog what you do, right? only in your dreams. >> there's a ton of things happening with the community, with social media. we have several million followers on facebook. it's just been easier to talk to the customer. >> reporter: the company has opened 11 retail stores as well. what you notice there, in addition to all the different ages and body types, is high-tech textiles. how big a factor is the whole concept of performance fabrics in this whole athleisure revolution? >> it's absolutely huge. >> reporter: durand guion is vice president for men's and kids' fashion for macy's. >> everything from keeping you warm and keeping you cool and whisking away moisture. >> reporter: think fancy new synthetics with sunscreen in

them, even. but the magic word is "compression," meaning snug and stretchy. >> you've goat that compression pant there. >> reporter: why are they called compression pants for men and leggings for women? >> because guys wouldn't buy them if they were called leggings. >> reporter: they wear them under shorts, but the biggie for men is the lightweight, slimmed-down sweat pant, now known as "the jogger." >> the influencers for men's athleisure are really the superstar athletes.the steph currys, the lebron james, the russell westbrooks. >> reporter: but athleisure has made it out of the locker room onto the runway. here alexander wang for high school. >> my real gut on this is this is something that is here to stay. >> oh, i don't think it's a fab. >> it's not a fab fad by any means. it's a complete lifestyle shift.

>> reporter: so athleisure for all? you were talking about leggings. i mean.ù >> absolutely. >> reporter: i'm in! >> osgood: some cottage. the story of the breakers is next.

>> osgood: the breakers, the so-called cottage, is the crown jewel of newport, rhode island. a city you may be surprised to learn was a leading slave-trading port during the 1700st. a southern retreat for southern plantation owners during the early 1800s. newport later on attracted a number of industrial tycoons of the gilded age. chief among them was cornelius vanderbilt ii, grandson of the founder of the new york central railroad. vanderbilt bought the original breakers, built of wood, in 1885. after it burned to the ground a few years later, he hired architect richard morris hunt to design its replacement. completed in 1895, the rebuilt breakers is a 70-room italian renaissance-style palazzo. it covers nearly 140,000 square feet and features some 300 windows, many with commanding views of the ocean. not that the breakers is the

only newport cottage a vanderbilt built. nearby stands the marble house, built between 1888 and 1892 by cornelius' younger brother william, also designed by richard morris hunt. william vanderbilt gave it to his wife, alva, as her 39th birthday present. today, both the breakers and the marble house belong to the preservation society of newport county. both are also national historic landmarks, and make very clear why mark twain coined the expression "the gilded age." this is the largest of the breakers 27 fireplaces. all it takes to light a rip-roaring fire is just one small match. ben tracy now pays homage to the matchbook.

>> reporter: they come in different shapes, sizes, and colors, little books and boxes concealing the fire within. but sparks of creativity can turn matchbooks from simple firestarters into tiny works of art. >> they are. they're design gems is. >> richard greenis what's called a phillumenist. >> i don't particularly like that. >> reporter: okay, matchbox collector. >> i prefer the term "matchheads." >> reporter: you might say he awares his passion for his hobby on his sleeves. do you ever walk by a matchbook or box you don't take? >> absolute, all the time. there are ugly plain white ones. >> reporter: you have standards? >> absolute, don't woe all? don't we all? this is a favorite of mine. the first thing i look at is the design. when you open it up and you look at it inside it's got fu man chew on it.

i look at the type they used, whether they used the format of the matched doing in some clever way. >> reporter: some are quite clever. the matchbooks thenselves part of the design. green's collection of a quarter million matchbooks, catalogs how historically they have been used to sell everything from paint brushes to politician. some are rare, some are racy. >> this happens to be called a feely. and some are racist. >> and here we have some political parties, such as the ku klux klan and the jon birch society. >> reporter: pabst brewing company of milwaukee, wisconsin was the first to see the potential in matchbooks. other companies soon followed. >> just wouldn't be in business without having a matchbook. >> reporter: there is debate about who invented the

matchbook. in 181992, patent attorney joshua pusey filed a patent for what he called the plexible match. it was meant to be enclosed by a suitable cover, folded and adapted to be opened and closed as the covers of a book. but charles bowman, another pennsylvanian, patented the matchbook design we know today. these four words are among the most commonly printed phrases of all time. but the matchbook itself has long been under fire, replaced in large part by the disposable lighter and seem will made irrelevant by smoking bans that have swept the company in past decades. >> we have matchbooks available at the front desk every day. >> reporter: michael lomonaco is chef and managing partner at porterhouse bar and grill in new york city. his is one of many restaurants, bars and she hotels that are giving the matchbook a second

chapter. >> reporter: chapter. >> i get to remind people who have been here that they have been here. and this little remembrance they take with them, this little memory box, they get to keep, remember they have been here, and tell their friends about us. >> here are a couple of what we call barrels. >> reporter: but for richard green, it's not just about advertising. matchbooks tell a story, our collective history, the good and the bad, one square inch at a time. >> reporter: matches encompass every aspect of popular culture, whether it's entertainment or politics or industry or business art, design, typography-- whatever it is-- music. they're all in matches. >> osgood: ahead. >> are you going to go with the tile? >> give them more shelving. >> all right, that's it. >> osgood: the real fixer uppers.

with ingredients like roasted hazelnuts and cocoa, nutella adds a smile to any morning. one jar; so many delicious possibilities. nutella - spread the happy! >> osgood: how's this for a kitchen with oceans of room? you say yours needs a little redoing? our jane pauley knows just who to turn to. >> i want to show you what we're doing in the kitchen with these. >> let's see what we've got. >> reporter: if you're not already addicted, meet chip and

joanna gaines, the rising stars of hgtv's "fixer upper." >> are you all ready to see your fixer upper? >> reporter: they've renovated dozens of homes in waco, texas. >> i think it looks great! >> reporter: she has the vision. he executes the plan. >> hi! >> reporter: and after weeks of construction, joanna has one day to set the stage for the big reveal. >> now, it's the finishing touches. it's all the things that truly make this house feel like a home. i love this time. >> reporter: this is the furniture? >> it's in my-- it's in my furniture warehouse. >> we call it, like, the hoarding zone. >> reporter: what would you

call this collection, joanna's treasure trove? >> yes. >> reporter: lintels, doors, an old garden gate. full of possibilities she alone can see. >> when i look at something like that, i immediately see two twin headboards built into the wall for if i ever do a little girl's room. i'll need this one. >> reporter: why does it have to be built into the wall? >> reporter: i think it makes it more interesting. >> reporter: joanna has the designer's eye, but chip was the original f'ixer-upper. he flipped his first house while still a student at baylor university in waco. >> i'd just buy distressed properties and then renovate them and sell them. >> reporter: how did you know how? >> you know, that's the will-dollar question. >> trial and error. >> reporter: joanna majored in

communications at baylor and if was prepping to take over the family business, selling tires. >> reporter: there was something about his humor. i don't know. i would always be saying, "this guy is interesting." >> reporter: newlyweds, they started renovating small house together four years ago, joanna was discovered by a blog, and then hgtv came calling. . >> i would say within a few weeks, they had camera crews down. >> reporter: chip was a natural. >> that's what i do best i've always kind of been the type to where i felt like cameras were following around sort of in a pretend way, you know. >> reporter: but joanna was a revelation. he was actually pretty sure tha there would be a star on this

show, and maybe he was a little surprised that it was you? >> i'm still, to this day, i'm just like, i don't know if they're watching the same show that i'm watching, but there's a clear star here that has been born. and the country seems to think it's my wife, and i'm telling you, it's me >> reporter: well, it's both of you. the lone star state is big enough for two more stars, and they're big enough to share the spotlight. fans know clint harp, joanna's go-to carpenter. >> i met joanna, and she said, , "hey, if i wanted you to build something, could i just, like, draw some stuff down on a piece of paper?" at the time i had built two or three beds which never sold. >> people say, how has this show changed your life?" and i'm like, "i'm sitting with jane pauley in my shop." >> reporter: you're natural-born entrepreneurs are, both of you. and when you have an idea. >> it gets executed pretty darn

fast. there's a real estate company, bed and breakfast, furniture line, paints and rugs, a book coming out in the fall. and their most ambitious undertaking so far, "the silos," twin rusting hulks on the waco. skyline, now a landmark, drawing 25,000 visitors a. week to the magnolia market. >> i just love the stuff she does. it looks like stuff you would have in your home. >> she's just brilliant. >> reporter: nobody's mentioned chip yet. >> chip is just awesome. >> he is. >> he is funny! >> i'm offering 50. >> don't do it. >> oh, my god! >> reporter: perhaps the city ultimate fixer upper is the waco, texas, the unlikely capital of home renovation. >> i feel like, to some extent, this is california back in the gold rush days, or alaska during its boom. >> reporter: you know, i'm thinking if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere.

>> oh, i like that. i like that >> reporter: oh, yeah, yeah. >> i think sinatra would probably be turning over in his grave, but i'd take that. i'd take that any day of the week. >> osgood: you are looking at an ingenious example of design-- perfect for a rainy day. good design is all around us as susan spencer will be showing us throughout the morning. >> reporter: sure, it keeps you dry, but have you ever really looked at your umbrella? >> most people take it for granted. they don't realize the intricacies that are involved to make that simplicity. you have a strap, you have a runner, and ribs. >> reporter: when it comes to design, says mechanical engineer dave kahng, the case is open and shut.

whoa! the umbrella is brilliant. >> there's no engine, no motor, no electricity-- nothing. it's just one simple movement. eight arms extend itself. and it's a huge surface area. >> reporter: and all it wants to do is protect you. >> it does one thing. >> reporter: so what genius thought this up? >> some people say it originated in china. some people say it originated in egypt. but it was-- it was originally used for shade. "umbra" is the latin word for shade. >> reporter: each year, kahng says, americans buy more than 33 million umbrellas, all shapes all sizes. perhaps they'd buy far fewer if the things lasted longer. >> we've all had an inverted umbrella. we've all had the fabric rip from the ribs. >> reporter: why is it embarrassing to have an inverted umbrella?

>> it is. >> reporter: kahng turned his umbrella obsession into a business, davek umbrellas. do you find that you're conscious, as you walk down the street, you look at people's umbrellas? >> oh, yeah. i'm always looking for mine. >> reporter: we met kahng at his warehouse in new jersey. every now and then, you'll see an umbrella just lying there in the street. >> it's sad. a fallen comrade. >> reporter: but he claims that does not happen to his umbrellas, meticulously made of steel, high-quality fiberglass, and aircraft-grade aluminum, and costing $50-- >> we imported the wood from italy. >> to this one of burnished wood-- $350. this is like the rolls royce of umbrellas. >> reporter: kahng even has an umbrella with a computer chip in the handle. >> if you accidentally leave this umbrella behind and you walk away 30 feet, you'll get a notification, an. alert---

>> reporter: 30 feet? >> --on your phone. that's right. telling you that you've left- >> reporter: it's talking to you, "remember how much i cost. don't leave me here." but forget the price, it is, after all, a masterful design. >> osgood: next, a visit to the house of dior. the actual house of dior. absolutely ageless® night cream with active naturals® blackberry complex. younger looking skin can start today.

>> osgood: ah, france. this lavish music room at the breakers features a french piano. today, france is where you'll also find the house of dior. we don't mean the fashion business. we mean the actual house of the late christian dior. seth doane is there, and he's got company.

>> reporter: there was plenty to catch one's eye, as a seemingly endless line of mercedes deposited fashionistas, models, and an oscar winner. but even actress charlize theron agreed the real star of this night was the house. >> i'm, like, living in a bit of a magical fantasy world right now. >> reporter: why? >> well, just walking through here you can't help but try to image things that happen in rooms, and my imagination just goes crazy . >> reporter: just like legendary designer christian dior's imagination did when he created this opulent retreat in the french countryside. >> i've had, like, the biggest smile on my face since i've gotten here because it feels like it's filled with joy. >> reporter: theron, the face of dior perfume for more than a

decade, lent her star power earlier this year to the grand re-opening of dior's chateau de la colle noire nestled in the provence region of southern france. >> he create this place for his own happiness. >> reporter: dior historian frederic bourdelier showed us around. even all of these decades later, dior still looms large here. >> yes, yes. we are really proud of our founding father. >> reporter: dior bought the chateau in 1951 and started work on it, but then died unexpectedly just about six years later. the house fell into other hands until three years ago when, the company bought it back and started restoring it to the way it was. the detail-obsessed dior had sketched out this entryway floor, just like he might have sketched a dress. skills he demonstrated for edward r. morrow on cbs' "person to person" back in 1955.

>> now, just what is it that you're sketching there, mr. dior? >> i'm sketching a suit for this spring, a big color, an open neckline. >> do you always sketch as quickly as that? >> yes, i have to do it. >> reporter: by using old plans and photographs and buying back original furnishings at auction, the house is now part museum, part tribute, and a way for the company to reconnect with its roots. >> we are now in the personal, private apartment of christian dior in the middle of the castle, and we are in his personal office. >> reporter: dior was not always surrounded by such grandeur. a letter on his desk reveals just how far he had come fter moving with his family to the nearby hilltop town of callian, with few prospects. so dior writes this letter in 1940. >> '40, yeah. >> reporter: he's jobless, and six years later, he would create this company.

>> yes, and seven years after, he's the king of fashion. >> reporter: dior founded his fashion-forward company in 1946, injecting glamour back into women's clothing in the wake of world war ii. >> just after war, he-- he anticipate the desire of people to come back to the golden age of couture. >> reporter: dior dreamed up many of his designs at the chateau, gazing out the window at the fields and gardens that inspired his creativity. christian dior had these rose buses out here like this? >> yeah, exactly, because this castle was a farm, too. and he plant everything here, and especially rose trees, too. >> reporter: today, armelle janody tends to these roses, which only bloom in may. they're hand picked and used to make the company's high-end perfume, just as they were when dior lived here.

they're so fragrant. >> yeah, this is the queen of the rose. >> reporter: these gardens are near the town of grasse, the so-called perfume capital of the world. >> perfumers used to say it is a "spicy" rose. there are a lot of different fragrances in it. >> reporter: at 89, lucienne rostanio can barely see. but told us smelling the "may rose" took her back to when she picked flowers for dior himself in the mid 1950s. what do you remember of christian dior? "he wasn't like those city guys," she recalled. "he bought this property and made it so beautiful.

everybody in the village just adored him." >> reporter: so many years after his death, what is dior's impact on the fashion world today? >> i don't think it's a name that you can utter anywhere in the world without people knowing what you're talking about. there is an essence that still is surviving through all these years. >> reporter: at that glamorous gran opening, a dinner table had been set for 180-- yes, all at one table. the fragance of flowers filled the air, and the house of dior came alive once again. >> osgood: coming up-- >> there's no other place in this part of the city where you're going to have this view. >> osgood: living the high life.

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>> osgood: when most of the mansion are designed, elegance meant building out. today it's about building up. lee cowan takes the measure of the newest crop of skyscrapers. >> reporter: of all the manhattan skyscrapers, the

empire state building finds itself in a curious position. just look up at all its lofty modern neighbors. they're rail thin, like beanstalks sprouting above a forest of older, huskier buildings. and there are more going up all the time. the central park tower, set for completion in 2018, will soar more than 1,500 feet, making it the tallest residential building anywhere. just a block away will be another 1,400-plus-foot tower-- this one set to take the record for the world's skinniest. these "super-talls," as they're called, will eventually make manhattan look more like a pin cushion, changing the skyline one really expensive condo at a time. >> it's not quite a closet. >> reporter: no, not at all. >> it's a bit of a grand space. >> reporter: there's no other

place in this part of the city where you'll have this view. >> no, no. >> reporter: developer bruce eichner is counting on the wealthy to buy into in this sky-high skinny venture. this is going to be somebody's bedroom? >> it's going to be somebody's master bedroom. >> reporter: and how much would one pay for this kind of view? >> well, for the full floor, which this one is, the price is approximately $20 million. >> reporter: the building is 65 stories tall, but with a tiny footprint. >> the building at it's base is 75 feet wide. >> reporter: that's it. >> that's it. and then it walks out each floor, about 4.5 inches a floor, so when you get to the top of the building, you're 105 feet wide. >> reporter: they're like giraffes balancing on one foot. but, perhaps more remarkable they exist solely because there

are enough people willing to pay enough to live way up there. >> what you're buying is the view outside. what you're buying is the location in the sky, and that's what has value. well, i started the museum in 1997. >> reporter: carol willis is the curator of new york's skyscraper museum. what's different, she says, is these new skyscrapers aren't so much monuments to corporate capitalism, as they are monuments to personal wealth. >> they're the 21st century version of the woolworth building or the empire state building, a place where individuals can own a piece of the sky rather than a company or a developer. >> reporter: there is, of course, a cost to building so high, and it comes in the form of greenhouse gases. whether it's the wilshire grand under construction in los angeles or the salesforce tower soon to be coming to san francisco, the production of the cement used to build them emits carbon into the atmosphere, contributing to global warming.

but in a forest in southern oregon, nature's renewable skyscrapers-- trees-- may just provide a more sustainable answer. as they grow, trees, take carbon out of the atmosphere, and even after they're harvested, they store that carbon. so lone rock logging has decided to send some of it's trees to a special mill that turns them into a new kind of green high-rise building block. >> it's going to change the way we build here in the us. >> reporter: john redfield is the chief operating officer at at that mill, dr johnson. it's the only lumber mill in the u.s. certifired to make something called c.l.t., which stands for cross-laminated timber. it's made by gluing together layer after layer of wood planks at 90-degree angles, and then pressing it all into a thick panel. now, we know what you're thinking-- we've been building with wood since we've been

building anything. but what makes c.l.t. unique is it's as strong as steel and up to 5 times lighter than concrete, making these panels perfect to build a high rise. >> it basically took them about a day to put up all the columns. >> reporter: architect thomas robinson designed this four-story, all-wood building in portland using c.l.t. it's similar to buildings in europe, which has been using c.l.t. to build high-rises for years. the us department of agriculture has wanted to spur more tall wood buildings here in the u.s., so two years ago, it announced a $3 million prize for the best all-wood design. robinson's was one of the winners, this 12-story, all- wood, big brother to his shorter version, set to be built in downtown portland later this year. so when the 12-story tower goes up, is it going to be something similar to this? >> yeah, similar, but actually with thicker panels. >> reporter: there are skeptics, however, especially when it comes to fire, but robinson has an answer for that, too.

>> people don't realize that wood has an inherent fire resistance when it's actually large, and it doesn't lose its strength as it burns. >> reporter: that, combined with a smaller carbon footprint, is starting to grow on a lot of folks. and, says john redfield, the look and smell of wood doesn't hurt, either. >> when's the last time you saw somebody hug a concrete column, you know? they don't. they sure like to hug trees. >> reporter: wood high rises likely won't reach as tall as these made of steel and concrete, but they'll crane a few necks for sure. skyscrapers, of whatever material, are signatures of our cities. they are time capsules of design that represent not only who we are but what and where we'd like to be. >> osgood: next, nancy giles. >> i'm so bad with plant, at a

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talk to a headache specialist today. . >> osgood: potted palms were the interior decoration of choice in the let's 19th century here at the formal dining room at the breakers. as for the favored greenery of today, nancy giles has been doing a little looking.

>> so i've been looking around my house lately, thinking something's missing. there's hardly anything living in my living room. i figured maybe a plant would help, but something hip something that will pop, as the designers say. so i hit new york city's flower district, where i met ashok kumar, a.k. to his friends. >> we have some beautiful bromelia. >> reporter: a.k. runs tropical plants and orchids. what else have we got over here? >> this is called alocosia. >> they look like elephant ears. and what about those bushes over there? >> this one is called bobcat orchid. >> a.k., what's this one here? my mom used to grow this. >> this one is called corn plants. >> but i didn't want the same old. i wanted cutting edge. a.k. showed me what's properly called the fiddle leaf fig.

it might seem familiar if you're the type who drools over design magazines. talk to me about the fiddle leaf fig. what is the big deal with that plant? >> so the fiddle leaf fig is kind of the craze in the design world right now. it's really, really beautiful. >> it's an african fig tree that doesn't produce actual figs, by the way. and interior designer brad sherman has been putting it to work. >> you can put it into a minimalist loft, and it goes great with all sorts of interiors. >> but beauty isn't everything. i have one small issue. i'm so bad with plants. at-- at a certain point, i thought i would just get pictures of plants. >> sure. >> because everything i make ends up-- >> right, right, yeah. >> --you know, dying. a.k. insisted that's not a problem with the fiddle leaf fig. >> this is very easy. people don't have time, especially in new york. >> yes, we're very busy in new york. >> you have to water once a week. >> brad sherman begs to differ. >> fiddle leafs, i think, are-- are more emotional plants. they-- >> what do you mean, emotional? do they cry?

>> they're sensitive. >> and that's why brad is already moving on. he showed me his yucca, which he thinks is the next "it" plant. >> it doesn't need constant attention and watering, it definitely will withstand a little bit of neglect. >> this is so pretty. >> thank you very much. >> but i wasn't giving up on the fiddle leaf fig. >> here it is. >> i went for a third opinion. so how old is she? >> ten years, actually. >> this is a 10-year-old plant? >> 10-year-old plant. >> how did you keep it alive for so long? >> some people would say neglect. >> landscape designer hadley peterson has a beloved fiddle leaf fig tucked away in her new jersey home. are you feeling, like, the hipness of you making a statement with the plant? >> i don't know about that. i've never kind of felt hip in my life, but if that's it, take it. >> and that clinched it. i brought home my very own fiddle leaf fig. figgy and i have an agreement: he'll increase my hipness factor, and i'll do my best to keep him alive.

>> osgood: some food for thought just ahead.

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it's all cut from one piece of paper, and it's folded up, so you don't have any seams. and what that means is that there's no place for liquids to actually seep out. >> reporter: yet, most people who get their chinese food don't look at that and say, "what a great box." >> no, but it is is a wondrous thing., >> reporter: a wonderous work of origami to which you never give a second thought, even on your second helping. >> reporter: when did this box come over from china? >> oh, well, in fact, it never came over from china. it is a uniquely american invention. >> reporter: this is an american invention? >> that's right. >> reporter: it was patented in 1894 by chicago inventor frederick weeks wilcox. in the 1970s, that red pagoda, popularized in san francisco, was added along with, "thank you," and "enjoy." as for the food inside: >> chinese-american cuisine itself is very different from food you find in china. >> reporter: so we have american food, basically, in an american box, and we all think that we're going around being ethnic?

>> yes, chinese food in the chinese takeout box is as american as apple pie. >> reporter: and this is as chinese as i am? >> yeah, that's right. >> reporter: no surprise then that the takeout box is made in the usa. the biggest company churns out a whopping 300 million a year. >> there are over 40,000 chinese restaurants in the u.s. and just to put that in context for you, that's nearly three times as many mcdonald's as there are in the u.s. >> reporter: there are three times-- there are three times more chinese restaurants than mcdonald's? >> almost, yeah. >> reporter: but back to that iconic box. peter kim likes to save the best for last. >> and i'm going to let you in on a little secret. not only is this takeout container great for holding in food, but if you just pop out the wire handle like that, and go like that. >> reporter: okay. >> then the container turns out, turns into a really nifty little plate. >> reporter: oh, wow.

you have done america a great service in pointing this out. >> i know. i know. >> reporter: something to keep in mind at your next swanky dinner party. there we go, more or less. >> yeah. >> we've got to get the ball off this way. >> osgood: still to come. >> maybe take it down a little bit where you are. >> osgood: designing golfer, jack nicklaus. and later. >> nothing compares to the design of a double-decker bus. >> osgood: meet a driven designer.

>> osgood: mr. vanderbilt and his guests played the indoor game in a wall designed with marbles. as for the outdoor game. our time, if the sport is golf, the designer is golfing great jack nicklaus. jim axelrod takes us out to the

green >> reporter: it may look like a barren wasteland, but actually this is just a step on the path to paradise. at least when this guy gets involved. >> i think this is too busy here. let's expand the lake and make sure we see water all the way on the right edge. >> reporter: jack nicklaus- >> maybe, yes, sir! >> reporter: widely considered the greatest golfer in history, is also among the most prolific golf course designers the game has ever known. >> i think this spot right here is just a little high. >> reporter: on this sunday morning, he is leading the charge at la gorce country club in miami beach with his design team in tow. he's been hired to redo the course, one of more than 400 his company has designed around the world. when you were playing, it was

you against other golfers. this is you against the land. >> it fights back, too. >> reporter: different kind of opponent. that's right. well, you try to make the land and the wind, and the weather be your friend. so you try to design around those elements so you're not fighting them, but you're actually using them to help you. >> reporter: he's got no formal training, but at 76, he's collected a lifetime of golf knowledge, right down to the smallest grain of sand. >> we supplemented it and that allowed it to compact a little bit and it plays a lot better. >> reporter: nicklaus was a ferocious competitor who won a 18 of golf's major championships over 25 years. once the competitive part of your playing career was on the-- the downside-- >> on the downside. it's okay. >> reporter: did the-- well, i mean-- >> hey, we all go there.

>> reporter: did the intensity of your desire to build the-- the course design business then ramp up? >> a little bit. but then about 1983 or '4, the fellow who was my c.e.o. of my company came to me., and i'm doing half a dozen golf courses a year. and he says, "jack, don't you think it's about time you made your avocation a vocation?" >> reporter: it took him a while for his design philosophy to evolve, at first thinking like the champion he was as a player. >> i got a reputation of building golf courses too hard because i was doing it for tournaments. >> reporter: but the longer he stayed at it, the more he started to think like a businessman. >> it shouldn't be about my ego. the person who is doing that golf course probably has his own ego. it's not-- not my job to go out and do a golf course that suits me. it's my job to do a golf course that suits them. >> reporter: which is not to say his long list of courses doesn't include some of the best in the game: muirfield village

near his hometown of columbus, ohio. valhalla in lousville, kentucky. castle pines in colorado. "golf digest" currently ranks them all in the top 100 courses in the country. but three-quarters of his work today is overseas, like these projects in vietnam and thailand. jack, you're 76. what are you going to turkmenistan for? >> to do a golf course. most people work all their life to retire to play golf. well, i played golf all my life to retire to work. >> reporter: he's getting just what he wanted. on the road 200 days a year, his brand extends far beyond golf course design, not just the golf merchandise you'd expect, but wine, lemonade, even ice cream, with a portion of the profits going to charities the nicklaus family supports. >> mr. jack nicklaus! >> reporter: you've won the congressional gold medal. you've won the presidential medal of freedom.

you're not a guy who needs to say, "gee, what did i do with my life?" so why press so hard now? is this to build a business to-- leave to your family? >> that's part of it. i need to leave that for my kids, my grandkids, and leave the legacy of a brand, and something that i've left here. >> reporter: jack nicklaus knows an awful lot has come his way, simply thru his astonishing ability to hit a golf ball. >> absolutely perfect! >> is there an area you're supposed to keep or what >> reporter: yet another way to be remembered. >> my walk up the 18th fairway at augusta is something i remember and i cherish. it'll be with me all my life. but this golf course is going to be here for a long time, long beyond my golf game and my lifetime, for a lot of people to enjoy and have fun with. that's a legacy that you can't leave by just hitting a golf shot.

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glawz we like to think that good architecture is timeless, but the man anthony mason now introduces us to says think again. >> the best way to see the city used to be at the front of a double-decker buck. now it's the back, too. >> the back has become so fantastic. 360 degrees, view out and view in. >> reporter: in thomas heatherwick's work, his redesign of london's classic double-decker bus, the cauldron he created for the london olympics, or dealing with's new california headquarters, you won't find a signature style. but the 46-year-old british designer says the world is growing too similiar. >> there's great benefits to globalization and things that are wonderful and fantastic. but it means you need to try to

put very deliberate effort now into helping things have their own soulfulness. >> reporter: similarity is your enemy? >> well, why do something that >> well, why do something that already exists? >> reporter: heatherwick's provocative work was celebrated at the cooper hewitt museum in new york last year. >> reporter: when "the wall street journal" proclaimed him "design innovator of the year, >> you should hear this. so noisy. >> reporter: in his london studio... >> we knew it could rock, but we hadn't really thought through that it could then go all the way round. >> reporter: ...where heatherwick has also dreamed up a spinning chair... this is the rolling bridge? and a rolling bridge that curls up to let boats pass. heatherwicke and his team of 180 architects, artists and designers are now about to make their mark in america, redesigning the interiors of the

geffen theatre at new york's lincoln center and creating the pier 55 park-- >> this side elevation. >> reporter: to be built on 280 pilings in the hudson river. when did you first get interested in design? >> when i was little i was very tuned into the functionality and astoatibs around me. >> reporter: his father, an educator and pianist, and his mother, a jewelry designer, fed his fascination for ideas. did you at some point find yourself making drawings of ideas of your own? >> i thought i wanted to be an inventor, but then discovered you couldn't study inventing. and in britain, you know, everyone's got the "chittty chitty bang bang" mentality, which is that "inventor" has the word "mad" stuck at the beginning of it. >> reporter: after graduating

from royal college of art, he launched his own studio in 1994. >> even though london is famous for the double-decker buses, they weren't considered part of our architectural her tan. >> reporter: six years ago, he was commissioned to do the first redesign of the double-decker bus in half a century. were you at all nervous about having to deal with something so iconic? >> i felt a huge responsibility. >> reporter: heatherwick added a door up front and a sweeping window to the back. >> this has to do lots of jobs, and our role was to try to make something that would do all that. but, also, i mean, you can see nothing compares to the front of a double-decker bus. >> reporter: heatherwick's most celebrated design may be the british pavilion he created for the shanghai world expo in 2010. >> and it seemed like do we-- does britain yet again talk about castles and queens and sherlock holmes? >> reporter: instead, he wanted to highlight london as one of

the greenest cities in the world. >> "what if we built a seed cathedral?" and everyone's going, "a seed cathedral? you mean, like a nut shop?'" and we were going no. >> reporter: so he implanted seeds in the ends of 60,000 acrylic rods. >> and if you hold it to the light, you see the daylight would come down and illuminate. >> reporter: the dandelion-shaped structure won first prize and drew 8 million visitors. his next marquee project is a garden bridge. >> the underside of the bridge, it felt, must be something that's beautiful. >> reporter: a pedestrian walkway that will extend nearly 1000 feet across the thames river. >> in effect, these are like hands coming out of the clay at the base of thames, holding up a garden, and the garden takes over from there. >> reporter: do you feel like you're trying to show people something, like, "hey, look.

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of unilever, the maker of q-tips. how much design is there in a little paper stick? >> i mean, don't mistake simplicity for lack of mastery or engineering. >> reporter: the q-tip hit the market in the 1920s as a tiny tool for baby care. since then, it's gone from wooden sticks to paper sticks, but one thing has never changed-- >> the amount of cotton on both ends of the paper stick. actually, the diameter of that cotton is exactly the same for every single swab. >> reporter: you are kidding. >> no upon you should look at them under a microscope. it's that good >> reporter: that very precision that seems to drive q-tip fans right over the edge. >> we'll hear them say things, like when they open the box of q-tips, they get, like, a little rush by looking at how perfectly they're all lined up and the

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>> we leave you this sunday in nearby portsmouth, rhode island, at the green animals topiary garden.

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