break-up-candles.jpgOne of the exhibitors in the upcoming 100% Design show in London is Athens-based design trio Greece Is For Lovers. Its irreverent products are inspired by its home country's cultural clichés and monuments, from opa-shouting Greek dancing to broken plates to the beach to Zeus' lightning bolt and Hermes and Aphrodite. This cedar-scented break-up candle offers "instant redemption," they instruct. "Fill in with the appropriate x-lover's name and burn the blues away." (You have 45 hours to get over your ex while it burns.) More sassy objects for the home after the jump...

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This Zeus-inspired lightning bolt letter opener does the trick for the right- or left-handed...

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These ceramic dishes are based on "the aftermath of a wild night out" and "the exuberating Greek practice of smashing plates during the climax of a bouzouki party"...

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Sunglasses-wearing Hermes and Aphrodite candles ("Hermaphrodite") can be burned like ancient myths...

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The Opa shower curtain shows you how to Greek dance...

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Athens Sucks, says Greece Is For Lovers, in an inverted display of New York-inspired civic pride, "and you know it."

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- Kristin Hohenadel blogging from rue Vieille du Temple, Paris, France. She can be reached at kristin @ apartmenttherapy . com