OBJECTS

This set of four mirrored coasters entitled The Night You Left are by Nir Hod.  Each set includes four different designs lined with digitally printed white powder that has a tactile quality. Decadent and eye-catching these are one of our best-sellers and are easily gift-able. Each set comes in a sleek custom black (gold, silver or pink) or clear acrylic (silver) box.

The title of the set suggests a lonely narrative, a moment of solitude. “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."

Created in collaboration with our partners at The Prospect, NY.

There’s not much to be said about this classic snow globe design from the duo Ligorano/Reese. It’s the perfect gift for many occasions.

The porcelain plate series by Kehinde WIley includes six designs featuring details from paintings spanning 2008-2012. The six different faces -- 3 male and 3 female -- are cropped against colorful, vibrant backgrounds so the plates are equally decorative and functional. The back of each plate has easy holes for hanging, and they are microwave and dishwasher safe.

Each coupe plate is 10.75" and shows a stamped signature on the verso. The plates are individually boxed.

Featuring details from:
Mrs. Graham (2012), oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches
Mary Little, Later Lady Carr (2012), oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches
Dacia Carter II (2012), oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches
Matar Mbaye II (2008), oil on canvas, 26 x 22 inches
Idrissa Ndiaye (2008), oil on linen, 26 x 22 inches
Mame Ngagne (2008), oil on canvas, 26 x 22 inches

The crystal shade may be purchased separately and used with any standard fixture that is sized to accommodate a 3-1/4" shade. To use this light outdoors you must purchase your own fixture that is approved for outdoor use as the accompanying fixture that we supply is not.

Deborah Ehrlich's elegant Crystal Jelly Jar light fixture highlights this renowned glass artist's attention to superior artisanship and craft. The hand-blown shades are made from Swedish crystal that is lead-free and therefore able to be thinner and more delicate than traditional glass. Made in Sweden, each shade is hand-cut and hand-grinded to perfection. The shade is paired with a brass shade holder and porcelain base to give the piece a relaxed but elegant look. The crystal shade may be purchased separately and used with any standard fixture that is sized to accommodate a 3-1/4" shade. To use this light outdoors you must purchase your own fixture that is approved for outdoor use as the accompanying fixture that we supply is not. A 65 watt clear light bulb is the usual wattage, but up to 75 watts is acceptable.

Please note that all Ehrlich items are FINAL SALE.

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 brightly colored chair sized for a toddler features the artist's trademark image. Available in red, pink, blue or yellow, it's a great piece for a kid's room or play room. Minor assembly required. Item ships flat.

The DISH series of porcelain plates by the Patella Brothers features 13 different silk-screened designs. Each trompe l'oei design has a distinct narrative told through a serendipitous combination of objects that feels surrealist or dreamlike. The Patella Brother's combined background in photography and sculpture explores new perspectives and altered visions of the ordinary, and the DISH series has brought this interest into the realm of the everyday object.

Each design is sold separately, or you can purchase the complete set of 13 designs. A 10% discount is given for the purchase of any 6 or more plates; a 15% discount is given for the complete set. Each plate is signed, stamped, numbered and dated. Food-safe ink; dishwasher safe.

Originally designed as a limited edition sculptural piece, cast in heavy polyurethane resin, the David Shrigley Swan has been blown up, literally. This inflatable swan may be missing the graceful curves true to a classic swan, but with its hand-drawn blank expression and erect white neck, it knows exactly what it is, it is a "Ridiculous Inflatable Swan-Thing." Named lovingly by David Shrigley himself, the statuesque swan stands at 35 inches tall and comprises all that is to love about Shrigley's charismatic work, while also being pool-ready.

From our partners at Third Drawer Down Studio. 

The charming PupCup whirls, twirls and spins about to the delight of all it passes. Combining the iconic images of Yoshitomo Nara's Lonesome Puppy (Dog From Your Childhood) and The Cup Kids, the PupCup's head and body rotate in opposites directions creating a remarkable kinetic object. Requires two AA batteries.

The porcelain plate series by Kehinde WIley includes six designs featuring details from paintings spanning 2008-2012. The six different faces -- 3 male and 3 female -- are cropped against colorful, vibrant backgrounds so the plates are equally decorative and functional. The back of each plate has easy holes for hanging, and they are microwave and dishwasher safe.

Each coupe plate is 10.75" and shows a stamped signature on the verso. The plates are individually boxed.

The porcelain plate series by Kehinde WIley includes six designs featuring details from paintings spanning 2008-2012. The six different faces -- 3 male and 3 female -- are cropped against colorful, vibrant backgrounds so the plates are equally decorative and functional. The back of each plate has easy holes for hanging, and they are microwave and dishwasher safe.

Each coupe plate is 10.75" and shows a stamped signature on the verso. The plates are individually boxed.

The porcelain plate series by Kehinde WIley includes six designs featuring details from paintings spanning 2008-2012. The six different faces -- 3 male and 3 female -- are cropped against colorful, vibrant backgrounds so the plates are equally decorative and functional. The back of each plate has easy holes for hanging, and they are microwave and dishwasher safe.

Each coupe plate is 10.75" and shows a stamped signature on the verso. The plates are individually boxed.

This four-panel leather kippah features a digital print of the Star of David designed by Sol LeWitt.

In 2001, LeWitt co-designed the Connecticut synagogue Beth Shalom Rodfe Zedek with architect Stephen Lloyd. The synagogue tried repeatedly to translate the radiant, geometric design the artist made for the ark doors into the convex form of a yarmulke. When the design was finally achieved it sold out almost instantly and since then there have been six more editions including this one which is the 7th and final. Each edition varied in trim color and the color of the inside fabric, but all shared the same six-pointed star design, a common motif in the late artist's work. The 7th edition design features a bright blue trim and a gray interior with the edition details in gold lettering. It is an open edition.

Man Ray designed this elegant chess set because of his lifelong friendship with Marcel Duchamp who was an avid chess player. He sought to use pure geometric forms associated historically and figuratively with the pieces they represent. The King represents the Egyptian king's pyramid; the Queen is the conical headdress of a medieval queen; the Bishop represents a flask for concocting healing liqueurs; and the Knight is based on a favorite form -- the carved scroll found on a violin. Only a handful were ever produced in Man Ray's lifetime (the maharajah of Indore commissioned a set made from silver-plated brass), and this re-issued design is rendered in wood and based on an original example from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection.

A solid beech wood chessboard that beautifully compliments this set is also available for $250.

Made in Germany under license with the Man Ray Trust.

Contemporary art fans and artists of all ages will be delighted with this lively series of coloring books by many wonderful artists. There are now four editions of the coloring book, each with its own collection of more than 100 pages of black and white drawings contributed by a diverse roster of today's celebrated contemporary artists. Most importantly, these coloring books are produced by RxArt, a non-profit that puts contemporary art in children's hospitals, and which donates these coloring books to children throughout the world.

Volume 7 artists include: cover and sticker design featuring Keith Haring, also including David Shrigley, Philip Taafe, Martin Creed, Jim Hodges, Gray Malin, Shara Hughes, Grace Weaver and many more.

Volume 6 artists include:  Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Christian Marclay, Roxy Paine, Seth Price, Matthew Richie, Jessica Stockholder, Erwin Wurm, Katherine Bernhardt, The Hass Brothers, and Melanie Schiff and many more.

Volume 5 artists include: John Baldessari, Ugo Rondinone, Keith Haring, Peter Halley, John Chamberlain, Will Cotton, Tom Otterness, Matthew Ritchie, Julie Mehretu, Olaf Breuning, William Wegman and many more.

Volume 4: sold out

Volume 3 artists include: Mel Bochner, Cecily Brown, Nick Cave, Robert Lazzarrini, Wangechi Mutu, Kiki Smith, Sarah Sze, Katrín Sigurdardóttir, Andrea Zittel, David Hammons, Dzine, Zaha Hadid, and many more.

Volume 2: sold out

This set of four cork board place mats by Louise Bourgeois show designs from the artist's fabric drawings that are intricate, geometric patterns. 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.

The porcelain plate series by Kehinde WIley includes six designs featuring details from paintings spanning 2008-2012. The six different faces -- 3 male and 3 female -- are cropped against colorful, vibrant backgrounds so the plates are equally decorative and functional. The back of each plate has easy holes for hanging, and they are microwave and dishwasher safe.

Each coupe plate is 10.75" and shows a stamped signature on the verso. The plates are individually boxed.

The porcelain plate series by Kehinde WIley includes six designs featuring details from paintings spanning 2008-2012. The six different faces -- 3 male and 3 female -- are cropped against colorful, vibrant backgrounds so the plates are equally decorative and functional. The back of each plate has easy holes for hanging, and they are microwave and dishwasher safe.

Each coupe plate is 10.75" and shows a stamped signature on the verso. The plates are individually boxed.

Each setting within each set of eight (dinner plates, salad plates or pasta bowls) shows a star with a different number of points beginning with a 3-point star and going up to a 10-point star. For example, when you purchase a set of eight dinner plates, each plate will have a differently numbered star. If you purchase a complete service of 8 settings (24 pieces total), you will receive 8 matching settings showing 8 different stars. The thumbnails to the left show a 5-point setting, a 10-point setting and a 4-point setting. Our stock is constantly changing, so please give us a call if you're looking for pieces that are immediately available.

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.

The Artist Towel Series features limited edition towels by an incredible selection of internationally known artists. They are 100% cotton, machine washable and because of their large size are great for a variety of uses including the beach, the bath, a picnic, or as a tapestry to hang on your wall.  

Artists who have participated in this collection include Yayoi Kusama, Ed Ruscha, John Baldessari, Peter Doig, Julian Schnabel, Jasper Johns, Barbara Kruger, Tracey Emin, Yoshitomo Nara, Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman, Ed Ruscha, Kehinde Wiley, and Rirkrit Tiravanija and more.

Marina Abramović has said about this limited edition tableware:

‘‘For my project with Bernardaud, I created two sets of tableware, which I call Misfits because they do not match each other. Each set has different sized plates that var yin shape and pattern.
Together, these two sets can be combined for a misfit dinner for two or one set can be used to serve a lonely dinner for one.’’

Abramović created her limited edition four-piece porcelain plate sets for Bernardaud with each motif closely reflecting her personal life. Each set includes a small bread plate featuring the artist's own family crest and a dinner plate adorned with a detail from her artwork Golden Lips (2009). The star-shaped dish represents the communist star, a symbol that was ever-present in Abramović's childhood and life in ex-Yugoslavia. The golden serving platter was conceived as a counterpart to the star and represents the sun.

This set of two 100% linen kitchen or tea towels features images of original watercolors by Chris Ofili. Entitled, "Afromuses Couple" each towel features a portrait, one of a man, the other a woman. These are machine washable and completely functional kitchen towels, or consider framing them for your wall.

Made in collaboration with the artist 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.

Kiki is the new fragrance from contemporary artist Kiki Smith, designed in collaboration with the award-winning French fragrance designer, Christophe Laudamiel. Kiki is a study of balance and contrast and is unabashedly green and fresh while deeply and unexpectedly, lush, warm, and dynamic. The fragrance evokes Kiki’s most significant olfactory memories: musks, boxwood, patchouli and sandalwood next to fresh, ripe foliage, and fig leaf notes. The uniquely soothing, enveloping warmth and herbaceousness of blue chamomile and the bright and summery smell of narcisse create an incandescent, satisfying and fearless scent that is diffusive and illuminating.

Laura Letinsky is an American contemporary photographer who has a long-standing engagement with the traditional genre of still-life painting. The images in her photographs show a collection of objects, some of which are found and some of which are made. Those that she makes reference actual objects in her life like the forms found in the Molosco collection of white, hand-painted porcelain tableware with gold trim. This collection of functional wares dates back to 2009 when the artist was in need for a perfect bowl for serving soup. Having studied both photography and ceramics she began to experiment with finding the right bowl form and then quickly expanded to include plates, cups, serving platters and more bowls, all of which she eventually incorporated into her photography.

Letinsky then joined forces with Jose Noé Suro Salceda, owner of Ceramicasuro, a porcelain producer in Guadalajara, who is also an avid art collector and has a history of collaborating with contemporary artists like Judy Ledgerwood, Arturo Herrerra, Liam Gillick, Marcel Dzama, and Jorge Pardo. Together he and Letinsky set out to make the Molosco collection that maintains Letinsky’s artistic vision while being entirely usable.

These functional piggy banks designed by Yoshitomo Nara are available in blue or white.  The artist designed this limited edition toy collectible for the Aomori Art Museum where it sold out immediately.  All our examples are brand new, in their original packaging and in excellent condition.

This linen tea towel by David Shrigley is great in the kitchen or as a hostess gift. The artist's recognizable humor is captured in the design that is silkscreened on linen.

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

This 28-piece domino set by David Shrigley features original drawings of skulls, grumpy old men, and raggedy cats instead of the traditional dots. It comes packaged in a bright green, gift box, and was designed as part of the artist's Play series with our partners at Third Drawer Down.

This 100% silk eye mask features the warm, wise eyes of Louise Bourgeois. On the trim and reversible side is a beautiful blue and white pattern in case you're feeling more subtle.

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