Designer Viktor Schreckengost created the banana seat for bicycles, as well as hundreds of other designs you see everyday. A retrospective of his work, Viktor Schreckengost and 20th-Century Design, is on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art through Sunday, February 4.
(Originally aired: January 27, 2001)
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