The usual trade is beauty against use, and each of these declines it. Calder’s chess pieces are small sculptures you are supposed to move; the cat tree is furniture first and cat second; the bubble car parks nose-first into the kerb; the carry capsule is symmetrical enough to hang on a wall and tough enough not to.
Chroma's smaller sibling, built for collage and close work
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Borosilicate single-stem vase shaped like a piece of fruit
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Cordless outdoor light shaped like a coastal tetrapod, IP-rated and stackable
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A silk tulip frozen at peak bloom that's also a lamp
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The handcrafted scissors that turned Craighill into a design phenomenon
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A modular lounger of soft spheres you rearrange into whatever shape you want
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Ten feet of epoxy with hundreds of sensors under the surface
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Calder's own 1944 chess set, 3D-scanned from the one he kept at home
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An EDC capsule in symmetrical pastel
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