A black lacquer triangle dish. A glass sphere with no chips or cracks. Neither one was what I set out to find, and neither one meant much alone. Here's what happened when I paired them anyway.

A weekend off was the whole plan, nothing more. Palm Springs wasn't where I expected to find anything for Altered Bloom. Then I looked up at a diner chandelier, and the rest of the weekend kept proving me wrong.

A wire shower caddy and one shaft of autumn light started a search for a specific, hard-to-find 1980s register: black lacquer, chrome, smoked glass, geometry with real authority. Here's how to actually find it.