Gravity

A flat steel grid, pulled out of flatness by something that is not there.

Gravity translates the mathematics of warped space into objects you can put a stem in.

For the table. The Tray works wherever small things gather — keys by a door, a watch on a nightstand. The Centerpiece is the same geometry at dining scale. Both are reflective from above and sculptural from the side, and the interlocking sections articulate, so the angle of the warp is never quite fixed.

Vases. Vase L holds a substantial arrangement. The Micro Vase holds one stem on a desk, and rewards being used several at a time. The Candleholder Vase does both jobs, with a glass insert so it can take water.

Desk and flame. The Pen Holder gives pens considerably more composure than they deserve. The Tealight Holder is the smallest piece in the series, and catches light differently from every angle once there is a flame in it.

Made in Italy, assembled by hand in Berlin in a workshop that employs people with disabilities. Two colourways exist because museums asked for them: red and blue for the Centre Pompidou, after its colour-coded ducts, and reseda green for the Grand Palais, after the ironwork under its roof.