Ian Parker: Francis Staub's Governors Island Carrousels: The New Yorker Like Frédéric Bartholdi, the designer of the Statue of Liberty, Francis Staub, the designer of an enamelled iron cooking pot in the shape of a cow, was born in Colmar, in eastern France. One morning a few weeks ago, Staub was in New York, for discussions about his own gift to New York Harbor - the loan of vintage French carrousels to Governors Island. On his way to catch a ferry there, he visited Sur La Table, the kitchen-supply store in SoHo, where he stopped in front of a display of heavy black pots that bore his name. He described the highs and lows of a career in cookware, while keeping his back to the Le Creuset. Staub, who is about sixty, had the air of a lounge singer at peace with a hangover. His laugh was a repetition of the word "yak." . . .