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The joys of simple luxury. While I still love the Eameses and Mieses of the world, little stuff like this that is do-able by everybody but still relatively rare is what really gets my design-flutter going.

On a tertiary note, objects like these remind me of book collecting. A matching Crate and Barrel living room set is beautiful and functional, just like a matched-binding collection of American poetry...but what ends up being most-loved in the end is a small tray displaying a hodgepodge of condiments or a yellowing copy of A Cricket in Times Square.

Lisa Congdon's kitchen tray has long been a favorite of mine. Check it out:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/91491847@N00/395474525/

That's one awesome tray. I love the colors and use of the enormo-mug for rolled up kitchen towels. I have one of those huge mugs myself, and this would be a far better use of it than gallon after gallon of coffee.