My Peugeot pepper mill is around 40 years old, used daily, still works like day one. It's turned wood, a decorative shape turned from a cylinder, what I think of as a normal pepper mill shape for table. You turn the round knob on top, pepper comes out the bottom. Not the comically-oversized one that lets a waiter give you pepper without leaning over the table, ours is only maybe 7" tall. I should refinish the wood, it looks a bit crappy.
I can't remember where I keep hearing all the Radavist mentions, but there have been plenty, some of them here no doubt. If the subject matter sounds interesting, I go to the site and read the article or just drool at the bike candy. Since I'm vintage-only, I skip anything with through-axles (except Cinelli Bi-Valent or Nivex Repose-Chaine), or bikes that need electric motors to make the derailers move — I can't believe people fell for that BS. But I like the site.