The Globe and Mail

The small skyscraper that Frank Gehry designed as a trophy for the World Cup of Hockey was a helluva way to romance an object. Not so much a bowl or a beer pitcher. More like a commercial tower with a technologically daring double skin. Put that edifice to your lips, and drink. Maybe it no longer matters if you've never experienced a Gehry building, much less worked in one. The new objects of desire are consumables designed by architects to help everybody bond around design. Buy a watch or a vodka bottle by Gehry and understand his instinct for design. Even a teapot is not to be underestimated. It might be a small treatise on a building's glass walls. The "float" tea lantern by Forsythe + MacAllen compresses much of their award-winning research into light building systems. This week, the Vancouver architects were named best new designers at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) in New York for their inventions.