Retro Blue Robot Ornament RASPBERRY blown from liquid glass at

blown from liquid glass at the furnace and shaped to replicate the boxy proportions and portafilter of a countertop machine at a scale where the group handle is smaller than a fingernail

or vase required to keep it looking exactly as it did the day it arrived

a constant reminder that I'd chosen to decorate my space with the botanical equivalent of a trust fund baby – pretty to look at

Longwood Gardens stocks the Hexi Small

earning a 5-star booth award twice

Retro Blue Robot Ornament RASPBERRY blown from liquid glass atThe Retro Blue Robot Ornament comes from the decade when robots were promised to solve everything and hadn't yet been given the chance to prove what solving everything would actually look like in practice the 1950s, when the future was still a clean, confident concept and chrome was doing most of the optimism's heavy lifting. Hand painted in blue and silver, its dials, antenna, and boxy little arms are rendered with the same certainty the era had