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.
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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