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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.

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.

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.

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 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 artists include: Carroll Dunham, Louise Bourgeois, Ai WeiWei, Michael Craig-Martin, Christian Marclay, Marilyn Minter, Rebecca Morris, Richard Prince, Laurie Simmons, Rudolf Stingel, and many more.

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 artists include: Olaf Breuning, Dan Colen, Tacita Dean, Marcel Dzama, Inka Essenhigh, Robert Gober, Karen Kilimnik, Adam McEwen, Sarah Morris, Takashi Murakami, Jorge Pardo, Raymond Pettibon, Ed Ruscha, Mickalene Thomas, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Lawrence Weiner, and Kehinde Wiley, and many more.

This cheerful and playful ceramic cookie jar by Tom Otterness features a mama bear and her two cubs that are climbing all over her. Perhaps in search of cookies? The mama bear's head is the lid of the jar which has a bright yellow interior.

Kate Shepherd has a designed a set of ten unique dinner napkins made in India on fine Percale cotton. The bold and contrasting palettes create nuanced arrangements.

We recommend washing in cold water for all Shepherd table linens to prevent normal fading over time.

From our partners at weR2.

The Artist Towel Series features 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 Peter Doig, Julian Schnabel, Jasper Johns, Tracey Emin, Karen Kilimnick, Barbara Kruger, Tracey Emin, Yoshitomo Nara, Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman, Ed Ruscha, Kehinde WIley, and Rirkrit Tiravanija.

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.

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

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.

The image for this beautiful plate by Rudolf Stingel is of an architectural detail from the artist’s childhood home. The porcelain plate edition was fabricated by Bernardaud, France and is available in black or white.

One of our most popular holiday gifts is back! Ryan McGinness has designed a new Calendar To-Do List Pad for 2017. The calendar features 365 unique black and white drawings on uncoated paper in a beautiful black archival box with metallic gold print. The pad is bound along the top and sized to be half of an 8.5 x 11 inch paper folded vertically. The box top can be used to store completed calendar days so at the end of the year, when the box is filled with the year's to-do lists, the completed calendar can be archived.

Each day features a different drawing in a large dot at the top center of the page. This dot is echoed with a smaller dot positioned over the day within a view of the entire month (and subsequent month) printed at the bottom of each page.

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.

This mirror can be hung or used as a tabletop mirror when using the attached stand. Two of Spades Mirror is designed by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari for Toiletpaper, the duo's provocative, image-only magazine turned product purveyor. The mirror features a woman's derriere with a two of spades playing card. Put your mug shot in the mirror and you've completed the prank.

This boxed set of 4 Christmas ornaments by celebrated artist William Wegman features four different designs on reflective gold and red ornaments. Each ornament shows one of Wegman's original drawings, two of which include humorous lines of text. Limited to 250 sets this is an easy and perfect gift for the holidays.

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. 

This pillowcase set by Scottish artist David Shrigley features two identical pillowcases featuring a double-sided print. On one side, a small bird says "This is me," and on the other side it says, "This is also me." Sweet, funny, and dry, all the humor we love from Shrigley is present in this set. 100% cotton and machine washable. Fits two standard pillows.

It's true that there's no real function to David Shrigley's Swan, but it aligns with our sense of humor and we just couldn't resist. It's the right size to place anywhere in your home -- side table, coffee table, bathroom, shelf -- and is one of our favorites for gifting. Each example is initialed by the artist and labeled on the bottom.

The Spot Clock uses Damien Hirst's popular spot paintings as its face, the front of which is printed with his signature and the Hirst/Hirst logo. The wall-mounted clock is available in two sizes (10" and 14") and features a German quartz movement and is made of powder-coated metal.

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.

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 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.

Our partners at The Skateroom, who collaborated with the artist to make this edition, donate a significant part of their profit to support social initiatives that make the world a better place.  For each edition sold, 20% of these proceeds will be donated to support Amplifier Foundation, selected by the artist, that helps protect indigenous communities through public art. Most recently,  Amplifier Foundation launched the ‘We The People’ campaign, a non-partisan campaign aimed at generating dialogue about the American identity and values through public art.

This reusable tin featuring Andy Warhol's well-known image of a cow is filled with delicious balls of Valrhona milk chocolate. It's small size (4.25 x 5.5 inches) makes it a perfectly easy gift for many occasions.

Produced in collaboration with Pendleton Mills, this limited edition blanket designed by Mickalene Thomas is the first in a series of four blankets the artist has designed exclusively for Artware Editions. Each design will feature a different female model with intricate braiding and other bold details that present a strong, graphic image. The reverse side of the blanket shows the same design in negative giving the blanket two distinct looks.

The blanket is a soft blend of wool and cotton and is perfect as a throw, a bed covering for a full or queen sized bed, or a wall hanging. A sewn-on, suede patch signed and numbered by the artist accompanies each blanket.

The Lena blanket was released in 2014 and has been featured in Elle Decor and Casa Vogue.

This memory card game features textile designs by the incredibly prolific artist Louise Bourgeois. It includes 24 different pairs and comes in a custom box which makes it great for gifting. Suitable for ages 3+.

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

Craig Damrauer's "New Math Collection" includes kitchen towels and mugs featuring the artist's humorous text pieces in the form of equations. The dyed cotton/linen blend towels are great in the kitchen, as a hostess gift, or framed on the wall. Machine Washable.

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

This set of four bone china plates by Louise Bourgeois features imagery from collages taken from the artist's fabric book, Ode à l'oubli. The collages were made from fragments of the artist's domestic life, including old clothing and household items.

Each plate is individually boxed and made in collaboration with the artist's estate, The Easton Foundation, and our partners at Third Drawer Down.

This 100% lawn cotton, embroidered handkerchief from the Guerrilla Girls can be framed or functional. Made in collaboration with the artist and our partners at Third Drawer Down Studio.

These beautiful handcrafted votives are by the ceramic artist Gabriella Levy. Made of fine, translucent porcelain and hand-poured soy wax, the votives glow warmly when lit and display as lovely tabletop objects when unlit. Perfect on a nightstand, window sill, or anywhere you enjoy candlelight. Purchase multiple votives and create your own grouping as a centerpiece for a dining table, coffee table, or fireplace mantel. When the candle burns down, a replaceable, standard tea candle can be safely used.

Sizes are approximate because of the unique nature of the votives. Custom projects are available.

This beautifully boxed set of four espresso cups and saucers was designed by Daniel Buren in collaboration with illy as part of their Art Collection series. Buren uses the black and white contrast of stripes to re-define the form of the cups and saucers. In particular, the saucers, which are in four different sizes and brightly painted on the bottom, create a wonderful illusion when stacked together.

Do Ho Suh’s work explores the relationship between the personal and the collective, particularly in the context of increasing internationalization. For this bowl, Suh has made an impression of his own outstretched hands in its base.

The bowl becomes a symbol of the gift of his creativity, an offering of something deeply personal into the social realm. This bowl is a beautiful table top object and works well as a gift for a wedding, birthday, house-warming, or any other kind.

This ginger, saffron and musk scented candle is in a reusable glass vessel featuring a black and white drawing by Keith Haring.

Designed in collaboration with the artist's estate, this beautifully crafted lacquered tray features a black and red optical design by Victor Vasarely. Vasarely is widely regarded as the father of the Op Art movement, a short-lived but influential movement in the mid 1900s. This tray features a design of black, white and red on a black lacquered tray. The artist's signature is featured both on the side and bottom.

The tray comes in a black cotton satchel and cardboard box which presents beautifully for a great gift.

This limited edition of six porcelain dinner plates features six black or red mobiles Alexander Calder made in the 1940s and 1950s. This set was fabricated in close tandem with the Calder Foundation and comes in a presentation box with a certificate of authenticity issued by Bernardaud, the famed porcelain maker from Limoges, France.

This Limoges porcelain plate features a detail from Robert Mapplethorpe's work Wrestler (1989) and comes in a custom gift box. The verso shows details about the plate and the artist's stamped name. Fabricated in Limoges, France in collaboration with the artist's estate.

This porcelain plate features a detail from the 2010 work, "The Golden Years," by Jack Pierson Dishwasher and microwave safe. The verso shows details about the plate and the artist's stamped signature. Fabricated in Limoges, France in collaboration with the artist. Gift-box included.

This boxed set includes six melamine plates, 3 each of two designs featuring one of Magritte's most iconic images in different colorways. Fully functional and dishwasher safe, the plates are durable and great for the whole family. The plates are packaged in a beautiful box and make an easy gift for just about anyone.

This set of five teas is inspired by some of the greatest artists of of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, specifically their paintings in the robust, incredible holdings of The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Each canister contains 10 sachets that can be used to make delicious hot or cold teas.

The set includes one canister each of:

Paul Cézanne / Citrus
A medium-bodied black tea, brightened with the light zing of lemon peel and a burst of antioxidant-rich Australian lemon myrtle. This tangy blend is inspired by Cézanne's bold, fruit-forward still lifes.

Claude Monet / Herbal Blend
Inspired by the serenity of Monet's impressionist masterpieces, this comforting tea blends floral notes of chamomile and lavender, with a smooth hint of Australian lemon myrtle and invigorating spearmint leaves.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir / Earl Grey
This black tea is inspired by the artist's soft, blended palettes that define his impressionist works. Its smoky undertones are enlivened by the subtly bitter kick of aromatic bergamot with a hint of orange peel to smooth out this blend.

Paul Gauguin / Mango
Have your own Tahitian get-a-way without leaving home. Silky mango and fragrant marigold flowers combine to give you a tropical escape inspired by Gauguin's famous paintings from that region.

Henri Rousseau / Green Sencha
Pan-fired green tea evokes the green, vegetal aromas of grassy slopes and the vibrant, luscious jungle settings made famous in Rousseau's work. Whether you're hiking up a verdant mountainside or sitting in your garden, this antioxidant-rich blend helps you prepare for all of your day's adventures.

The image used on this ashtray by Vik Muniz is taken from Caspar David Friedrich’s The Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (1818). As might be expected, Muniz, known for using unusual materials like ketchup or chocolate to recreate masterpieces, has drawn the image using cigarette ashes and butts. He then photographed the image and had it screened onto a beautiful porcelain ashtray made at Limoges in Bernardaud, France. The rim of the ashtray is then hand-painted in silver leaf. Published by the Peter Norton Family Christmas Project.

This 100% linen, machine washable, tea/kitchen towel features Albert Gleizes's 'Seated Figure" (1920). These towels are great for framing as artwork as well. Produced in collaboration with the artist's estate and our partners at Third Drawer Down.

Yinka Shonibare's work explores issues of race and class through different media including sculpture, painting, photography, and installation art. For this edition, Shonibare designed a dollhouse that is a replica of the 1872 Victorian town house in the East End of London where he now lives. By replicating his own house, the artist comments on the 18th century tradition of dollhouses being commissioned objects that were exact miniature replicas of larger homes for elite and well-to-do families.

As in many of his other projects, Dutch wax print cloth figures prominently in this dollhouse with the chairs and bed are covered in the fabric. To impart a lived-in quality, Shonibare selected furniture in various woods and styles to fill the rooms. The two-story house includes cabinets, chairs, tables, fireplaces, and a canopy bed, along with reproductions of paintings by Shonibare and Jean-Honor‚ Fragonard.

This set of eight different napkins by Laura Letinsky and John Paul Morabito are made of a fine Spanish unbleached cotton and linen blend. Unexpectedly elegant and substantial in weight, each napkin has woven into the naturally colored fabric a digitally-configured spill pattern. With use, these napkins will acquire an on-going patina as evidence of conviviality. The Stain napkins embrace smears and dabs, both in their quiet beauty as well as a record of your life well-lived.

Machine washable. Card with edition information attached.

This ultimate garden set includes a cotton apron screen-printed with details from Louise Bourgeois’ Untitled (Tools), 1986, an aluminum trowel and fork, and a pair of durable garden gloves. The tools are printed with details from one of Bourgeois’ textile designs. 

From our partners at Third Drawer Down Studio.