What I Would Buy At...: The Tabletop Mobile From Design Within Reach

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This week on Curbed, I will visit one chain furnishings store a day and choose $500 worth of items. Though I am no design expert, most people do say I have great taste…

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It's a fact: every room, whether modern or traditional, needs a fun piece of art. This mobile, offered by Design Within Reach, is an item that will fit beautifully into any space and provide a very playful vibe. Influenced by well-known Alexander Calder, Matthew Richard's mobiles--including this one, the Tabletop Mobile--"rotate 360 degrees" and satisfy "both sides of Richards’ personality: the artistic side and the technical side." So, how much will it cost you to liven up your space with a cool, contemporary fixture? Actually, just $385.

· Tabletop Mobile [Design Within Reach]

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Michael Aram Moves: Tabletop design firm Michael Aram has...

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Video Interlude: Branko Lukic's Existential Tabletop May Forever Alter Eating

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Palo Alto, Calif.-based Industrial designer Branko Lukic has conceived a tripped-out world in which spoons not only carry food from plate to mouth but also "heighten our experience of taste"; and dinnerware in which we "shift the placement of the handle from the outside to the inside." Must. Process. Slowly. Anyway, today Core77 sheds light on Lukic's newly released Nonobject, which showcases his wacky twists on some very common stuff. Both the book and its exquisite still-life photography have already received favorable reviews, but it's in the short yet highly intense video supplements that Lukic really shines. Jump to check out the bowl; head over here for the spoons.

VIDEO: INNERWARE

Innerware from NONOBJECT on Vimeo.

· Icon Reviews Lukic's Nonobject [Core77]
· Non Object [official site]
· 1001 Drops [Vimeo]
· Innerware [Vimeo]

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