Add a booth, a Formica counter and a cup of joe - as diner patrons call their coffee.

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The Italian-run shop has an old school look, but this time the monochrome-tiled floor and Formica tables are genuinely vintage.

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Abramson put her purse down on a white Formica desk that she occupies in the middle of the third-floor newsroom.

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It needs to not fail for a couple of years, and I want to be able to use it on Formica and my bluejeans.

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The leaves outside the window were still shimmering, and I stared at the fuzzy pattern they made on the pane and the Formica counter under it.

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The couple removed and replaced the home's parabola-shaped roof, stripped away dozens of layers of paint, ripped out a prior owner's black Formica bathroom, reverted the master bedroom to Mr. Lautner's original floor plan and redid a guest bedroom.

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