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Able to hold tea lights and tapered candles,’he cast-iron Spin Candelabra (2006) takes its cues from the heavyweight industrial machinery and delicate mobiles. It’s hefty yet elegant, designed to act as a kinetic centerpiece that can be configured in endless ways. Candles not included. Made in the U.K.

Discover how artists see the world and inspire each other with common themes and sensibilities, materials and techniques. Seen side by side, Art = reveals new connections between artists of different times and places, offering a fresh perspective on beloved works from the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Beyond the wealth…

Design for Children, a must have book for all style conscious and design savvy readers, documents the evolution of design for babies, toddlers, and beyond. The book spotlights more than 450 beautiful, creative, stylish, and clever examples of designs created exclusively for kids – from toys, furniture, and tableware, to textiles, lights, and vehicles.

Norwegian designer Kristine Five Melv’ was inspired by ancient Etruscan pottery and Umbrian craft traditions in designing the striking Ikiperu Pyx, a lidded ceramic box named for an Etruscan goddess. Bold color blocking and shifts in texture define Melv”s contemporary interpretation of this ecclesiastical form. The handmade lidded box combines glazed and unglazed ceramic for…

The Community Basket (2019), inspired by Shaker boxes, is carefully handcrafted from sustainably harvested white oak selected for both strength and fiber length, deftly joined by recyclable aluminum links. For this basket, ‘I wanted to build upon existing Appalachian traditions, but also Shaker traditions, which have a place in Appalachian history,’ explains designer Stephen Burks,…

The Asterisk Clock (1950) is one of more than 150 clocks designed by George Nelson Associates for the Howard Miller Clock Company, which sold them from 1949 into the 1980s. Nelson Associates, first launched as a studio by George Nelson in 1947 in New York City, employed some of the most celebrated designers of the…

With a form juxtaposing sharp lines, round edges, and thin silhouettes, the Guggenheim Vase is part functional, part optical illusion. The subtle, hand-wrought texture renders each unique, as does the color brought out by the firing. The vase is not water-safe.