Australian House & Garden

Design moment DUALIT

Germany-born Max Gort-Barten was a serial inventor. In the 1940s, he bought a factory in Camberwell, London, to manufacture contraptions that included a cocktail shaker, custard mixer and an equally useful machine that topped and tailed onions. He then devised the Dual Light heater, so named as it deflected heat to two parts of the

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