Details on the elevator door plaque, celebrating the boons of grain, at the Grain Exchange annex. (James Lileks/The Minnesota ...

But fortune favors the bold, and when he found the remains of an elevator control panel in an abandoned Croatian resort hotel, [Davor Cihlar] undertook an extensive and instructive reverse ...

We don’t expect enough from elevator doors these days. We want them to open, to close and to stop when we touch the door when someone’s racing to make the car. We don’t ask them to be beautiful — we ...