raymond

Ironing is women's work. And women's work, we know, has nothing to do with engineering or technology. Irons are not technology; they are domestic appliances. Collect a bunch of them, though, and they start looking like technological art objects. Then you can write a book about them. Which is exactly what Jay Raymond has done. For the past 25 years, he's been collecting vintage electric irons. But not just any old electric irons. Raymond had a thing for streamlined irons, whose sleek, curvy designs make them look more like an art object than a domestic appliance. Raymond, it turns out,…