Vision comes to town

World Kitchen, a 100-year-old American kitchenware brand, has finally arrived in Beijing.

Its sought-after Visions series, which includes glass pans, pots, and saucers, is known for resisting thermal shock.

An interesting story of just how strong it is that in 1950, World Kitchen's mother company, Corning Consumer, came up with a special glass-like material that was used in the missile heads used by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. This same material was later used in Visions.