“With a touch of art direction, these objects neither transform nor offer transcendence, but they do make strange the act of living.”
Every year, for the past five years, the good folks at Ravenhill Studio in Los Angeles publish Everyday Objects. Each volume presents a trove of quotidian things selected by a set of creatives within the studio’s orbit.
Launched online just in time for the holidays, it is, ostensibly, an elevated gift guide—burnished to shine by the keen judgement the dozens of designers, architects, makers, curators, writers, and artists use in their selections of household items or work tools. It also is a document of the mundane actions that make up our daily lives. “The archive feels like a love letter to the objects that make doing everyday things delightful,” says Marjory Garrison, Ravenhill’s director of sales and marketing.