VintageGriffin.com

The trophy is a classic form. You see it carved in wood by Gringling Gibbons in stately English country homes. You see it molded in plaster above 18th-century doors in French chateaux. You see it repurposed in motifs decorating Victorian "hunt tables." It's been a decorative thing, meant to symbolize something -- mastery over animals, over wartime opponents, or a discipline, like music.

Well, Emiko Oki, a Japanese-born, London-based designer, has repurposed the classic form of the trophy. It's no longer just decorative. Now it does something.