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T.O.M.T. Ceiling Fixture

By KRISTINA ZIMBALIST Friday, Apr. 24, 2009

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Since 1999, designer Rodney Trice has gathered found objects and refitted them to growing cult acclaim. He calls his art, which includes propeller blades turned into this ceiling fixture and a heavy tenement door reconceived as a tabletop, "applied deconstruction." "Every piece I do has a story," he says.
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