I was eating an everlasting gobbstopper today. Maybe you remember this candy? It is a candy that has a beautiful, shiny candy coating and within the coating are the multicolored strata of candy goodness. I’m not sure why, exactly, but the Waldo/45 table by James Burleigh when I saw it immediately transported me to 9am this morning when the sweet slickness of the gobbstopper rolled back and forth over my tongue. This piece of furniture just begs me to break a piece off and eat it for dessert.

Tubes by Tsunami Glassworks was one of the highlights of ICFF for me. I’m a sucker for contemporary glass design, and this work surpassed all others in my opinion. Each piece in Tubes is hand blown and finished, and each piece has its own character and hue. When all pieces are assembled to make a forest of glass vases a perfect poem is created, but one that can change and evolved to suit the owner’s mood. Also, if you’re so inclined, these green glass vases will make the perfect vessel for the longest of long stemmed flowers. Crazy idea, I know, but why not?

Are you a hardcore graf artist who has made it big in New York and now want to enjoy the finer things in life? Now, Areaware has created a series of plateware for you! The finest of Delft china combine with the heavy old skool stylez of the streets of New York to make the New York plate set. It’z HARD, yo! The plates remind me f a post I did back in the day on beautifully packaged NYC Garbage, but the plates are hella more funkshional.

Ontwerpers, the Dutch Design Duo of Christiaan N.J. Oppewal and Silvijn van der Velden, have created a fantastic chair and shelving combination. This chair is for the serious writer out there. Here’s how I think the chair is most optimally used with the professional author or journalist in mind: First, choose all of the books that you would want to use as either a writing reference book or a book for inspiration. Then, arrange the books on the shelves with the most important books easily within your grasp. Next, set up your laptop on the Cabinet Chair’s desk. You’re almost ready. Finally, take your coffee machine and squeeze it right behind the back of the chair, and take your favorite bottle of liquor and place it directly behind your computer. Now, you got it: the ultimate writing station has been devised complete with favorite vices.