Corporate Gifting

These do, because the geometry holds them up rather than any decoration — hand-cut crystal and polished metal, made to be handled.

This is a working shortlist for gifting: objects that survive a desk, read well unwrapped in front of other people, and are not obviously anybody's logo. Prices run from a brass bookmark to a sculptural vase cut from a solid block of crystal.

Crystal. The Rainbow Angle Vase and Tealight carry a dichroic film across each facet, so the spectrum shifts as the recipient moves past them. Drops sets four crystal spheres into a monolithic block — as a four-candle Candelabra, or as Bookends bonded with a pigmented seam.

Steel and brass. The Gravity Tray and Centerpiece are a polished grid warped by an unseen mass. The Cloud desk tidy is solid brass and ships flat. Bookmarks and Penrose coasters are satin brass, made in Italy and assembled in a Berlin workshop that employs people with disabilities.

Commissioned editions exist. The Gravity series is already produced in colourways developed for the museum shops of the Centre Pompidou and the Grand Palais in Paris — Pompidou's colour-coded ducts, and the reseda green of the Grand Palais ironwork.

Everything here is designed in Berlin by Gunnar Rönsch and Steve Molloy, architects working in crystal and polished metal since 2011, whose studio work includes commissions for SFMOMA, the Centre Pompidou and the Museum of the Future.