Its sidewalls are brushed aluminum, and the top is white acrylic - with a big gray Apple logo in the middle.

I said, "Well, I hope the fingerprint people can lift some prints off that brushed aluminum."

Carbon fiber, an aerospace composite sometimes used to dress up dashboards, is now counterfeited as often as burl walnut, brushed aluminum as frequently as bird's-eye maple.

Each suite has modernized rooms with raised ceilings, leather sofas and flat-screen TVs, as well as glass, brushed aluminum and wood-grain furnishings.

The V-6 car has wood inserts; the four-cylinder version uses brushed aluminum.

The surfaces have 101 Federal has raised circles and brushed aluminum.

These were handmade of marble, clay, Lucite, stained glass or brushed aluminum by American and Israeli artists.

Materials change wherever you look: brick, mirror-surface steel, brushed aluminum, brightly colored paint, corrugated metal.

Making our way past "little Baghdad," we come to a series of large modern buildings constructed of pale Scandinavian pine and brushed aluminum.