"I can clearly make sleek objects but this was not meant to be one of them".
The sleek objects on the shelves are actually plastic detergent bottles and fast-food containers that she retrieved from the local trash and painted with a glossy enamel paint used on plastic toy models of military equipment.
This demonstrates, they said, that a close relationship between people and cats developed at least 5,000 years before the Egyptian elite were known to pamper cats as palace pets, revered goddesses and sleek objects of art.
The vehicles were now on deck in bright sunlight; each was a sleek, flat, streamlined object — small enough to fit into the trunk of a car — painted a brilliant orange, with a couple of rakishly tilted fins and six thrusters, or propellers.
And perhaps the technical know-how of a dedicated band of anoraks will bring Marc Boothe's vision to life: a new generation of cinephiles who will exchange seasons of European classics on the street by gently touching some sleek white object designed by Jonathan Ive.
The venue, called Artisan Social Designer, showcases works by artists who use classical skills — like blowing glass, metal work, macramé, embroidery or carpentry — to create sleek, contemporary objects.
Karim Rashid, a designer of sleek contemporary objects in New York, said he didn't know enough about the company's ethics to give an opinion.
No longer simply sleek aesthetic objects that would seem at home in a glossy magazine, they are serious investigations into how machines can be used to generate a better way of life.
Harvested locks of human hair wind their way through Studio Swine's strikingly sleek Hair Highway object series.
This young Chicago artist's method is to conflate ordinarily unrelated verbal or visual systems and to embody these odd couplings in sleek signs or objects.
