The contemporary kitchen-dining room's double nature, combining practicality with comfiness, has been such a headache for the designers, poor lambs.

The overall result was a structure which combined extreme practicality with extreme simplicity.

Radu Muntean, a 25-year-old Romanian immigrant, designed a car for Russia that combined pig-hauling practicality with a Faberge jewel-box finish.

Dinners chez Harrison have a catch-as-catch-can quality that combines practicality and inspiration.

"Gold is a way of combining luxury and practicality."

Terrybaun specializes in combining practicality with originality of design.

What is different is that today we have the luxury of combining practicality with choices influenced by an educated eye and personal flair.

When Cliffs Shaft engineers presented company president William G. Mather with proposals to update the headframes, Mather suggested that, because of the prominence of their location, the headframes combine practicality with architectural beauty.

In general, Rohan have managed to combine roomy practicality with stylishness.

"In approaching development of the all-new Mazda5, our team aimed to combine superb practicality with the superior environmental performance these modern times demand, and a new expression in stylish design," said Hideki Matsuoka, the Mazda5 programme manager.