Elizabeth Lyons's new pressed-glass chandeliers, which she makes by hand, are a result of an unlikely inspiration: her collection of vintage kitchen objects like pizzelle presses, drain grates and cast-iron hot plates.
I wondered if Arcade had yet encountered Foamspace, a "mobile work of architecture" made of enormous geofoam blocks, its white surfaces reflecting glare onto the Bowery sidewalk, shedding tiny pellets – despite clean-up workers' best efforts – into drain grates.
The two have written a book, "Home From the Hardware Store," out late last year from Rodale, a cunning how-to in which Mr. Antonson uses items from the hardware store to make all sorts of intriguing home goods — candelabra from plumbing parts; a lamp out of drain grates; a coffee table from the kind of galvanized elbows used in ductwork.
Aluminum bleachers, guardrails, streetlight poles, storm-drain grates, copper flashing, and the nozzles of firehoses are also popular among metal thieves.
But like all Mr. Gober's doors, cellar stairs, drains, grates and orifices, it is the entry into a mysterious world, often a world washed in water, as Venice is.
Replace the pavement at the bottom of your driveway with a French drain or grate.
In addition, the five pools run by the Westchester County Department of Parks, Recreation and Conservation have either multiple drains or a large grate drain, said Peter Tartaglia, a spokesman.
West Caldwell's two pools have grate drains.
His mission is to figure out who is stealing the city's manhole covers and its storm drain and street grates, increasingly valuable commodities on the scrap market.
The utility had put a pump in the vault to clear water out; the pump burned out, but because it was not equipped with a circuit breaker or a fuse, electricity passed to the pump, then to a drain pipe, a metal grate, up to the telephone and into Philip Vanaria's body and brain.
