Drink Rocks keep your spirits as they should be: undiluted. These platonically shaped stones are designed to be chilled in your freezer before being admired in your evening cocktail. Our Drink Rocks are made with natural materials and are finished by hand. The finishing process affords each piece with unique characteristics which may vary from product to product.

Areaware is a gift and home accessories brand based in Brooklyn, NY and Columbus, OH. We work with independent designers to bring their design ideas to life.

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Drink Rocks

Title

Drink & Glassware

A simple cast iron candle holder with a three-in-one feature. Remove the top to reveal a space for a votive or stick of incense. Choose the mood you wish to set and burn one illumination – or all three.
Cast iron 3.56" x 3.56" x 2.61"
About the Designer

Josh Owen is an internationally renowned industrial designer, educator and, author. He is the president of his eponymous design studio, Josh Owen LLC and is a Distinguished Professor of Industrial Design at The Rochester Institute of Technology. Owen's projects are produced by major manufacturers and have won many awards. His work is included in the permanent design collections of the ADAM Brussels Design Museum, the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Chicago Athenaeum, the Corning Museum of Glass, the Denver Art Museum, the Musee des beaux-arts de Montreal, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Jewish History and the Taiwan Design Museum. He is the author of the book Lenses for Design and the forthcoming book Design for Study.

Candle Holder

Candleholders

Our Gradient Puzzle is a vibrant way to meditate on color. The act of putting it together is slow and deliberate, where the color of each piece is used to locate its proper position. We’ve used a thick stock and high-quality art paper, so the puzzle can be assembled again and again without losing its edge.

Gradient Puzzle - 500 Piece

Colors

Puzzles

little puzzle thing® jigsaws are miniature puzzles that can be completed in twenty minutes or less. Reward your mind with some off-screen time. Each series is a timed edition, printed in limited quantities. Act fast or smell ya later!

Little Puzzle Thing® - Series 4: Smells

Style

Introducing the Cubebot® Capsule Collection.  Five multi-colored Cubebots in two sizes. Cubebot, a foldable wooden robot puzzle with hundreds of poses but only one solution. Recommended for ages 3 years old and up.

Cubebot® Capsule Collection

Size

Kids Toys

This set of six coasters can be artfully arranged to form a tiled trivet. The illusion of 3D through color and geometry allows for endless permutations, encouraging playful mosaic building on your table. Ideal as a housewarming gift for those with discerning taste or as decoration for your own intimate gatherings.

Table Tiles

An all-American spatula, created by a Rhode Island educated New Jersey designer and made in the USA, the Star Spangled Spatula® pays homage to the USA's stars and stripes, as well as our country's love affair with outdoor grilling.
5% of proceeds will be donated to the Penn Abramson Cancer Center. Find out how the purchase of this product helps to fund cancer research.

Star Spangled Spatula®

Color

Home Decor

Harmony Ball chiming rattles are known for their simple and elegant design. They are renowned for their musicality and shimmering resonance. This hand-tuned, sixteen tone rattle is crafted from German Silver, with a thick overlay of Sterling. Timeless and classic. Adult supervision required.

German silver 1.75" x 5" x 1.75"

Harmony Ball Rattles

little puzzle thing® jigsaws are miniature puzzles that can be completed in twenty minutes or less. Reward your mind with some off-screen time. Each series is a timed edition, printed in limited quantities. Act fast before they get eaten up.

Little Puzzle Thing® - Series 2: Munchies

A set of four glass coasters that create mesmerizing moiré patterns when stacked and turned. When not in use, arrange the coasters to transform a simple dotted grid into a blooming circular array or a wavy line into a dazzling optical effect.

Glass Grid Coasters

This set of six coasters can be arranged to form a tiled trivet. The illusion of 3D through color and geometry allows for endless permutations, encouraging playful mosaic building on your table.

Table Tiles - Optic

good luck good fortune a token of well wishes wooden symbolism
A lone feather is believed to be a blessing and a symbol of thoughtfulness. Give this wooden feather to a loved one and let them know they’re on your mind. An elastic cord runs through the center.
beech and elastic 6.75x1.6x0.25" 17.1x4.1x0.64 cm

Good Luck Charm - Feather

A set of four terracotta coasters reminiscent of the rippled sand dunes in the American southwest. Their ridged design keeps your favorite drinks steady and surfaces protected. Arrange all four together to make a trivet for your kitchen or tabletop. Dune Coasters are cork-backed and come in four different glazes; blue, black, pink, and green.

Glazed terracotta 3.5 x 3.5 x 0.5 in

About the Designer

Ben Medansky is an orchestrator of controlled chaos, a sculptor of hard edges in naturalistic worlds, a refiner of industrial aesthetics that retain rough and human qualities.
The varied environments of Arizona, Chicago and Los Angeles - both natural and manmade - are the foundation to Ben’s creative inspiration. He is especially influenced by Brutalist and Modern architecture and industrial design; specifically by the strong and diverse architecture of downtown LA and it's seemingly uninterrupted construction. Ben is also drawn to themes and motifs of technology and space exploration and the industrial aesthetics they employ. Much of this work explores variations on radial symmetry and grids while utilizing a limited color palette. It is an appropriation of aesthetics employed by the mechanical world; an experiment in mimicking strong forms out of a fragile material. The output is a meditation on minimalism and mechanics, re-mastered in earthen and eternal material.

Dune Coasters

Draw and measure with accuracy using this crystal glass ruler. The centimeter grid overlay allows for precise alignment when placed above an existing drawing.

Glass Ruler - Centimeter

Rulers

Our family of Mirror Masks are made from layers of painted and silvered glass. Their expressions reflect yes, no, or maybe. A small keyhole is milled into the back for easy hanging on a screw. Hardware included.

Mirror Mask

Mirrors

little puzzle thing® jigsaws are miniature puzzles that can be completed in twenty minutes or less. Reward your mind with some off-screen time. Each series is a timed edition, printed in limited quantities. Act fast before they get eaten up.

10% OFF: PUZZLEMIX Save 10% when you bundle your puzzles! Mix and match your favorites from any puzzle series for a value of $75+ and get 10% off. Use the code PUZZLEMIX at checkout.

glossy art paper over 2mm chipboard more than 70 pieces 8.6" x 8.4" assembled tiny sticker sheet included in each box

Little Puzzle Thing® - Broccoli

Single | Bundle

Our Reality series by Harry Allen is inspired by the beauty of everyday objects. By casting natural forms, Allen thoughtfully reimagines objects and gives them new uses. Each object is chosen with care and often a comic sensibility. The Box Turtle Box was cast from a turtle that died of natural causes. Its shell opens to reveal a secret compartment for storing small objects.

Reality Box Turtle Box

Decorative Boxes

little puzzle thing® jigsaws are miniature puzzles that can be completed in twenty minutes or less. Reward your mind with some off-screen time. Each series is a timed edition, printed in limited quantities. Act fast before they get eaten up.

10% OFF: PUZZLEMIX Save 10% when you bundle your puzzles! Mix and match your favorites from any puzzle series for a value of $75+ and get 10% off. Use the code PUZZLEMIX at checkout.

glossy art paper over 2mm chipboard more than 70 pieces 10.3" x 4.3" assembled tiny sticker sheet included in each box

Little Puzzle Thing® - Papaya

Susan Kare is a pioneer of early computer graphic interface design. In the 80s, she began work at Apple Computer designing fonts, icons, and visual elements for the original Macintosh operating system and applications. Kare designed this set of textiles for the Jacquard loom, an early example of computer-controlled machinery, operated with punched cards and invented by Joseph Jacquard in 1801. This line of fine textiles celebrates the parallels between weaving and pixels; both rely on the idea of a grid spread across the surface of a medium.

Bitmap Textiles

The Goober Candle is cast in unscented paraffin wax from playful forms originally created by Talbot & Yoon in their Brooklyn studio. Each Goober has a distinctive shape and character. Approximate burn time is 40 hours. Do not leave burning candle unattended.
curious and kind laze about, hazy glowing laid back little blob

100% Paraffin wax Eh (blue): 4.25" x 4.5" x 4" El (purple): 4.25 " x 4.5 " x 4 " Em (green): 4.25 " x 4.5 " x 4 " Eph (pink): 4.25 " x 4.5 " x 4 "

Talbot & Yoon is a design firm founded by Mark Talbot and Youngjin Yoon, who were trained and registered as Architects in the state of New York. They incorporate their architectural thinking into the playful objects that they design for everyday use. Talbot & Yoon believe that play is a central tenet of both design and culture and want to facilitate play through their design objects. While the products they sell are ‘finished’ when they leave the studio they are never truly completed; character, variation and reconfigurability allow the consumer to experience the same delight from the products through participating with them both physically and emotionally as Talbot & Yoon experienced designing them. They also believe that it if it isn’t fun, why bother, and imagine a world of products that people can take home and play with, that can grow and change as people's needs and desires grow and change.

Goober Candle

Candles

Wow-o-wow it's a pile of crocodiles! This set of 5 little acro — er, crocobats are designed to nest and stack to build a tower of friendly crocs. Get snappy and use their mouths as cantilevers or simply interlock the notches on their backs. Need a bigger challenge? Add multiple sets to create a tall croc tower. After a while, you'll be a crocodile stacking pro. Recommended for ages 6 and up.

Beech 6.4" x 2.5" x 5.75"

Karl Zahn is a freelance product and furniture designer in Greenpoint Brooklyn. His work examines contemporary materials and historical technologies in an attempt to create modern hybrids that are more applicable, beautiful and sustainable. His designs express a pared-down simplicity and stark aesthetic as a blend of modernist hard lines and surfaces with a Danish sensitivity to materials and joinery. Each piece is designed to withstand the passing of trends and foster complex relationships that grow more endearing over time. Born and raised in rural Vermont, his work with wood and natural materials is an extension of the teachings from his home and time spent playing in forests and woodshops. After earning a degree in product design from the Rhode Island School of Design (2003), he traveled to San Francisco where he immersed himself in the creative and complicated metalworking culture that thrives there. In 2007, he moved to New York to begin working on his own. He has since had the opportunity to work with such established companies as Artecnica, Areaware, Teroforma, Lindsey Adelman Studio and Roll & Hill, as well as continuing collaborations with up and coming designers.

Croc Pile Large

Cushions or dolls, inspired by Victorian shaped pillows. Graphics based on the first mass produced images from 19th century illustrations.
Organic cotton, polyester filling 15.5" x 9.5" x 3"

Fauna - Rottweiler

Dusen Dusen is known for their bold original textiles to both wear and live among.  Each collection is developed and inspired by fine art, commercial and naïve design, as well as the brain's reaction to color, movement, and contrast. Pattern Puzzle translates these unique designs into 500 and 100 piece jigsaw puzzles.

Pattern Puzzle - 500 Piece

With a mutual desire to create a pair of universally flattering sunglasses that are uncompromising in material and craft, Article One and Areaware collaborated from design to development. As a naturally small-batch brand, Article One frames are handcrafted at the base of the Dolomites in Northern Italy. The Article One x Areaware sunglasses are constructed with true dot rivets, 5 barrel hinges, and Italian hand-dyed acetate. The shape is sized 47 - 23 - 145 with Zeiss sun lenses that provide 100% protection against UVA/UVB rays. An Areaware web exclusive.

Acetate 1.8 x 4.6 x 5.7 in Made in Italy

The Areaware Frame

Jewelry

little puzzle thing® jigsaws are miniature puzzles that can be completed in twenty minutes or less. Reward your mind with some off-screen time. Each series is a timed edition, printed in limited quantities. This series is in collaboration with our friends at Van Leeuwen Ice Cream and is available for a limited time only. Act fast before they melt away!

Little Puzzle Thing® - Series 5: Ice Cream

Cubebot® is a wooden toy robot inspired by Japanese Shinto Kumi-ki puzzles. Made from wood and elastic, Cubebot can be positioned to hold dozens of poses. When it's time to rest, Cubebot folds back into a perfect cube. A classic toy for all ages that will endure generations of play. Recommended for ages 3 years old and up.

Cubebot® Classic

Everyone at the Block Party is like you and me: each with a unique personality and story to tell, shaped by the communities they live in. Stack and rearrange their pieces any way you like – or mix and match to create your own collection of neighborhood friends. Recommended for ages 6 and up.

Block Party

This is the original bent-nail bottle opener designed by Brendan Ravenhill. A single bent nail embedded in an ergonomic wooden handle functions as a lever to pry open your beverage. Magnets are inlaid on both sides. One catches the removed bottle cap and the other holds the opener on your fridge when not in use.

Bent-nail Bottle Opener - Tidepool

The original emoji, Cairo was a typeface designed by Susan Kare in 1984 for the first Macintosh operating system. Taking its name from the hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt, each symbol was drawn by hand using the bitmap grid. A few notable symbols lived on into later operating systems including the cursor and watch.
Kare designed this woven blanket for the Jacquard loom, an early example of computer-controlled machinery, operated with punched cards and invented by Joseph Jacquard in 1801.

Cairo Throw - Gray/yellow

Throws

Replacement bulbs for your String Light and Orbit Chandelier. Sold individually.
Extra Large Bulb - 15 Watts, 2" diameter, white (bulb type E 12 G16)
Large Bulb - 10 Watts, 1.5" diameter, white (bulb type E 12 G12)
Medium Bulb - 10 Watts, 1" diameter, white (bulb type E 12 G8)