The Object Maker / DESIGN HISTORY
The Microscope Wore Gold
An eighteenth-century scientific instrument that refuses the separation of beauty and usefulness.
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1001 / ONE OF THE SEVEN WORLDS
The Object Maker
Ceramics, tools, sculpture, design and objects that demand to be handled by the imagination.
ALL SEVEN WORLDS
THE STORIESInto this
5 EDITORIAL PIECESInto this
world.
The Object Maker / ONE MINUTE
The Donkey Inside the Star
Thirteenth-century Kashan pottery makes an argument for looking twice.
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The Object Maker / OBJECT PORTRAIT
A Body That Can Hold Water
An Ecuadorian ceramic vessel shaped like a seated man.
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The Object Maker / DESIGN OBJECT
The Box Remembers the Dance
A Japanese lacquer object that turns performance into portable decoration.
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The Object Maker / TIMEPIECE
How to Slow Time
A brass sundial asks whether measurement has to feel mechanical.
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OBJECTS IN THE ARCHIVE
10 OBJECTSSee the work.
The Object Maker · Ecuador / Río Napo
Vessel in the Form of a Seated Man
Maker unknown · 6th–13th century
The Object Maker · Japan
Round Box with Dance Hat and Instrument
Yamada Jōkasai (attributed) · 19th century
