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This set of four mirrored coasters entitled, The Night You Left, by Nir Hod are lined with digitally printed white powder that has a tactile quality. Decadent and eye-catching, the coasters come in black or gold and are backed with black velvet. Highly gift-able, the set is housed in a sleek black box.

The title of the editioned set suggests a lonely narrative, a moment of solitude when one might turn to drugs not for glamour or excitement, but for revelry and longing. “There is a certain magic in loneliness,” Hod explains, “you have to be alone to create.” He adds, “It’s not about drugs or glamour—it’s about the inside world, where you can dream and love and seek a greater truth—it’s about a feeling of being connected to something so human.”

These three souvenir teaspoons by Ai Weiwei make playful use of the artist's work "Study of Perspective" a series of images that's featured in MoMA's collection, amongst others. The photographs show the artist lifting his middle finger to iconic manmade landmarks around the world. It's an initially humorous act that signifies the power of the artist's rejection of authority. The teaspoons feature Tiananmen Square, the Eiffel Tower and the White House.

Made in collaboration with the artist and our partners at Third Drawer Down Studio.

This set of four cork board coasters by Louise Bourgeois shows the reproductions of fabric pages from the artist's Ode À La Bièvre book. The set comes in a custom box for easy gifting and storage.

Made in collaboration with the artist's studio and our partners at Third Drawer Down Studio.

This limited edition set of four coffee mugs entitled, 10am is When You Come To Me, by celebrated artist Louise Bourgeois shows detailed images from the original work of the same name. This boxed set includes a detailed information card and each mug shows the artist's signature. Dishwasher safe.

Made in collaboration with the artist's studio and our partners at Third Drawer Down Studio.

This bone china mug by David Shrigley is microwave and dishwasher safe and features the phrases, "I've Done Everything" and "I've Done Nothing."

Made in collaboration with David Shrigley and our partners at Third Drawer Down Studio.

The Broken Juice Glass is a limited edition set of four different glasses conceived by Roy McMakin, exclusively for Artware Editions. For this edition, the artist has taken the simplicity of four small glasses and imposed on them a complex reworking of the aphorisms “THINGS CHANGE” and “CHANGE THINGS”. Because of their transparency and shape, McMakin is able to use the seriality of the glasses to play out a conceptual progression: the first glass is clear, on the second the phrasing is shown in its entirety on the front of the glass, and on the third and fourth the text is printed in a band around the glass but appears to be illegible. One must perfectly line up the fragmented text (a greater challenge from the third to the fourth) from the front through to the back of these to make sense of the parts. When the glasses are full, the front text appears incoherent but as the glass empties things change and all is clear.

McMakin’s art practice explores how functionality influences meaning within the medias of sculpture, photography, design, and architecture. He has had recent solo exhibitions at such prestigious venues as the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York. He lives and works in Seattle.

This set of four cork board coasters by Sam Francis show details from the artist's paintings. They come in a simple gift box and make a great housewarming presents.

Made in collaboration with the artist's studio and our partners at Third Drawer Down Studio. A portion of the proceeds go to Creativity Matters: the Campaign for Creativity in Learning, the signature program of the Sam Francis Foundation.

Robert Lazzarini's work often recreates and then subverts everyday objects thereby confounding the viewer's expectations and challenging ideas of perception. For this edition, which was originally conceived for the Peter Norton Family Christmas Project, the artist used complex non-linear distortion and composited attributes of different cups and saucers to arrive at an archetypal object. He first drew the cup and saucer using three-dimensional modeling software and then found a well-proportioned spoon and laser-scanned it directly into the computer. He next applied multiple sine wave patterns along different axes through these virtual objects. After finishing the virtual modeling stage, Lazzarini created a series of rapid prototypes reproducing the rendering in 3D form. Designed to be viewed from all angles, Teacup becomes a visual anomaly placed among everyday items, evoking a melancholic, otherworldly quality.

In order to suggest years of use, each cup is hand-finished by Lazzarini and features a small chip in the rim.

Craig Damrauer's "New Math Collection" includes kitchen towels and mugs featuring the artist's humorous text pieces in the form of equations. The mugs are fine bone china and dishwasher safe.

The two mug designs are:

Modern Art = I could do that + Yeah, but you didn't

Chef = Cook + Authority

Made in collaboration with the artist and our partners at Third Drawer Down Studio.

Perfect for coffee talk, this mug features a reproduction of the painting Kvetch, Kvetch, Kvetch, 2010, by Mel Bochner.

In the early 1980s, Sol LeWitt and his family bought a rustic farmhouse in Spoleto, Italy. While in Rome looking for new dishes, he and his wife, Carol, discovered that the maiolica pottery they so admired was made locally, almost in their backyard, in Deruta. Italy. The craftspeople in Deruta were continuing the more than 600 year old tradition of creating maiolica, a technique of applying a glossy base glaze whitened with tin oxide onto fired clay pottery. Vivid, hand-painted colors are then added and the pieces are fired again.

LeWitt designed his own dinnerware in Deruta and these same pieces are now available through Artware Editions in the full range of colors the artist intended. Each piece is made by hand by the same artisans who for generations have kept this proud and classic Italian tradition alive. This dinnerware is lead-free and dishwasher safe.

If we do not already have it in stock. the fabrication time is approximately 12 weeks.

This set of four cork board coasters by Louise Bourgeois shows the reproductions of details of the artist's fabrics which were an essential material in her work.  The set comes in a custom box for easy gifting and storage.

Made in collaboration with the artist's studio and our partners at Third Drawer Down Studio.

This set of six coasters is based on a whimsical illustration created by Donald Seitz in 1991 which outlines the history of art with smiley faces appropriately altered in the styles of famous female artists. Made of laminated MDF with polypropylene coating and velveteen backing. Wipe clean.

This plastic, waterproof tablecloth is designed by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari for Toiletpaper, the duos provocative, image-only magazine turned product purveyor. The tablecloth is coated with boiled linseed oil to ensure durability and features a variety of objects see in the matching metal dinnerware pieces. This includes severed fingers, plungers, and the like, to be expected from the art world's favorite pranksters.

Great for the outdoors and kids' craft projects.

This boxed set of two different bone china mugs feature details of patterns from the work of Yayoi Kusama

Made in collaboration with the artist's studio and our partners at Third Drawer Down Studio.

A great gift for your sleep deprived or caffeine-addicted friends, this bone china mug by David Shrigley is microwave and dishwasher safe. It features the phrase, "You cannot drink too much," and dozens of coffee cups filled to the brim.

Made in collaboration with David Shrigley and our partners at Third Drawer Down Studio.

This stainless steel water bottle holds 20 oz and features a beautiful black and white floral design by Alex Katz.

Made in collaboration with Barney's and our partners at Art Production Fund.

Craig Damrauer's "New Math Collection" includes kitchen towels and mugs featuring the artist's humorous text pieces in the form of equations. The mugs are fine bone china and dishwasher safe.

The two mug designs are:

Modern Art = I could do that + Yeah, but you didn't

Chef = Cook + Authority

Made in collaboration with the artist and our partners at Third Drawer Down Studio.

This set of six coasters is based on a whimsical illustration created by Donald Seitz in 1991 which outlines the history of art with smiley faces appropriately altered in the styles of famous artists. Made of laminated MDF with polypropylene coating and velveteen backing. Wipe clean.

This set of four round, heat-resistant cork board coasters features details from Judy Chicago's work.

The set comes in an easily gift-able custom box. From our partners at Third Drawer Down.

This set of four coasters was inspired by the works of Piet Mondrian. Made of laminated MDF with polypropylene coating and velveteen backing. Wipe clean.

This set of four cork board coasters by Robert Rauschenber shows the reproduction of a detail from his iconic combine imagery from Tire Print, 1953. The set comes in a custom box for easy gifting and storage.

Made in collaboration with the artist's studio and our partners at Third Drawer Down Studio.

Cindy Sherman has created this Limoges porcelain 21-piece tea service in a limited edition after the original design commissioned by the MADAME DE POMPADOUR (née Poisson) in 1756 at the Manufacture Royale de Sevres.

The self-portrait image of the artist as Madame de Pompadour has been transferred onto porcelain through a complex process which requires up to 16 photo-silkscreens. Each piece is silk-screened and painted at Ancienne Manufacture Royale, then individually signed and numbered.

This service is available in four traditional 18th-century colors: apple green, rose. royal blue and yellow. Each color is in an edition of 75.

This beautifully boxed set of six cappuccino cups and saucers was designed by Robert Wilson in collaboration with illy as part of their Art Collection series. Robert Wilson, who is the founder and artistic director of the Watermill Center, used this collection to express the spirit of the Watermill Center which is an interdisciplinary workshop devoted to arts and sciences - here, people from different backgrounds and countries can explore and experience new forms of art, breaking through artistic boundaries.

This boxed set of two porcelain coffee or tea mugs feature two of Picasso's drawings, "The Dove" and "The Horse."  They are trimmed with hand-painted silver and come in an elegant gift box.

This Limoges porcelain espresso set includes 2 cups and 2 saucers featuring details from the work of Robert Mapplethorpe in a custom gift box. Fabricated in Limoges, France in collaboration with the artist's estate.

This set of six espresso cups and saucers was designed by Sophie Calle for Bernardaud. Each cup and saucer tells the same story in French of Calle's experience having lunch with a man whose intelligence at first paralyzed but who eventually revealed himself as a regular mind only to leave her feeling the fool. Told in Calle's quick, humorous voice the story carries through from the saucer to the cup.

The story reads (translated from French to English):

(Saucer) His intelligence paralyzed me. He invited me to lunch with him. In order to prepare myself, I asked him what we were going to talk about. A derisory exercise in vain, but I also knew that it would calm me. Point-blank, he asked a question: What makes you get up in the morning? I thought all week. When the day came, I turned to him and he answered the question:

(Cup) The smell of coffee. We changed the subject. At the end of the meal we were served coffee, and I took the cup as a souvenir.

This item is part of a series of home products featuring a black and white graphic image from the American artist Alex Katz. Each Dessert Set includes one dessert plate with a matching cup and saucer. The underside of the plate features the product details and the artist's stamped signature.

Made in collaboration with Barney's and our partners at Art Production Fund.

This tea service by Arman consists of 21 pieces, all of which appear to have been cut in half creating a series of forms that relate to the artist’s classical works of sliced violins, cellos, and other objects.

The set was manufactured in Limoges by Bernardaud. Each piece is individually stamped and numbered and comes in its original packaging. There are two variations of this set, both limited edition, one in cobalt blue and white (sold out), and the other in all white.

This elegant and restrained crystal decanter by Deborah Ehrlich for March SF is made of hand-blown, Swedish crystal. Ehrlich's glass designs embody a natural balance of shape and volume and are admired as stand-alone objects in addition to being truly functional. This decanter can hold a full bottle of wine and comes ready for gifting in a simple, black tube.

Make every coffee or tea break more fun with this ceramic black-and-white patterned mug. When hot liquid is poured in, the grid magically transforms into a design inspired by the art of Piet Mondrian.  Dishwasher-safe, hand-wash recommended.

Arturo Herrera's limited edition, hand-blown crystal vessel double-functions as a wine bucket or stunning vase. The surface of the vessel is decorated with one of the artist's recognizable abstract compositions of interlacing forms.

"Elijah Cup" by Tom Otterness is a sterling silver goblet that, when covered, symbolizes the earth held up by two 24 karat gold vermeil figures.

"Elijah Cup" can be used during the Passover Seder either alone or in conjunction with the artist's "Seder Plate" (sold separately). It can also be used as a non-religious object to commemorate a wedding, anniversary or other ceremonial occasion and functions as a traditional cup on any table.

The edition is limited to 150. Each cup is signed and numbered on the bottom.