She specialized in designs for automotive interiors, as well as furniture, jewelry, fashion accessories, and stained glass windows.

In 1947, Rother established her own design studio in the Fisher Building, where she specialized in designs for automotive interiors, furniture, and stained glass windows.

In the early 1950s, she designed special automotive interiors for Kaiser-Frazer Corporation and Packard Motor Car Company, making a pink polka-dot truck.

Andreas Wlasak, who heads the design department at Faurecia, a supplier of automotive interiors, looked at kitchen displays in Milan.

About as difficult to operate, too, and Honda's dash defined a Marmite moment in automotive interiors.

Cork can be used instead of wood or aluminium in automotive interiors.

Its ultra low-profile design blends inconspicuously with all automotive interiors.

At the Eislingen site, 400 employees manufacture around 15 million m2 of thermoplastic polyolefin (TPO) sheeting for automotive interiors a year.

Lear, Johnson's main competitor in automotive interiors, makes only automotive products; it lost $1.38 billion last year.

"We wanted to get away from the traditional automotive interior," Mr. Nakamura said.