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Kyle Marshall, who might be seen as latter-day avatars of design not unlike Henry Cole and his brethren, combed the booths of ICFF for all that was novel yet potentially enduring. Their finds were far-flung in style and material, ranging from modern to classic, utilitarian to whimsical. My own vote for the most life-changing design goes to Molo Design, which creates undulating walls of corrugated paper or plastic which may be installed in any environment, from office to house. I was particularly impressed by the possibility of changing the standard office cubicle into a place both poetic and practical, creating division and privacy that flow and embrace instead of contract and circumscribe: thinking literally outside the box. "Something there is that doesn't love a wall," the poet Robert Frost wrote famously. Molo tears down obstacles, replacing them with new relationships of solidity to space; their creations have already been collected by the Museum of Modern Art. I would build my Museum of the Future, containing the wares selected by Kyle Marshall and Christopher Hyland, of Molo Softwalls, an edifice completely new, as refreshing in our time as Paxton's Crystal Palace was in 1851. If the Javits Center is New York's own Crystal Palace, then Molo, in an age when we cannot reinvent the wheel, manages nonetheless to reinvent the wall. H Lisa Zeiger HYLAND