They have also renovated the upper floor of a 1910 Masonic Lodge building to create “The Loft,” an additional lodging space of four luxury bedrooms with an ultramodern kitchen.

Now hailed as a groundbreaking, clean-energy prototype noteworthy for its ultramodern design and Telkes’s use of chemical salts that absorbed and released heat, it gained national prominence.

Instead, it becomes something of a horror film, in which the apartment — an ultramodern aerie whose furnishings seem aggressively uncomfortable, lit in a chilly blue light — appears to be trying to kill Nemo.

Germany supplied the first of four ultramodern Iris-T systems, which are so new that they had never been used on the battlefield, while France and the Netherlands also pledged additional air-defense missiles.

Whether you’re chasing nostalgia or looking for creative, ultramodern indulgence, it’s worth making time to bake holiday cookies this season.