Modern Design Buffs Gifts

'It's hard to believe this is just an atrium.'

'It's a Joan Biro.'

T. S. Eliot Meets Beavis And Butthead

"Surprise!"

"Oh, wow! Is that stunning or what?" "Mid-century classic. Should be in a museum. Let's pee on it." "Totally."

'Would it be cruelly ironic to shape our new cholesterol medication like little eggs?'

'The client loves your work. Cut everything except for their logo.'

For the musician strapped for space...the Murphy piano.

"When we remodeled, we decided to go with the granite countertop."

'Well, why didn't you say you wanted the office to be functional?'

"Mom, dad. I'm LED."

"Worse than giant clothespins, Ralph - Bauhaus designed alligators!"

"It's post-gingerbread."

Tank color choices.

'Wow, NICE Flat!'

'I liked the Pompidou Center too, Melvin, but I'm not obsessed with it.'

A shared passion

'It started out as a pup tent, but it ended up as some sort of homage to Frank Gehry.'

'He used to think, now he just googles everything.'

'Just can't find Le Corbusier's anywhere !'

Homes of the font designers

"This is your breakfast nook and over there next to the refrigerator is your breakfast cranny."

Edouard Manet

"Darling, a rather uncomfortable distance has developed between me and the furniture."

"The art class look - oh, you mean flung shui?"

Ezra Pound

Luca Barocco's Cannoli Sectional

"Very minimalist"

Reproduction Furniture

Seafront Hotel.

All-aluminum-body pickup truck with optional door handles.

"We're looking for a pediatrician who reflects our design sensibility."

Garden spade and fork shaped like a knife and fork.

Doctor says to Magritte character with apple in face: 'I'm afraid you've got worms.'

"Hi! I'm on the ship!"