Your Bruised Shins Might Hate You For This 'Invisible Furniture'

A new furniture series by Takeshi Miyakawa presents a perverse contradiction: It's high-end home decor that you want to show off, but the material it's made from is almost invisible to the naked eye. "I swear it's still here," you could see a collector telling the guests. "I put it right over by the – OW, dammit."

Takeshi, a 50-something resident of Brooklyn, built his "Visible / Invisible" pieces from a type of acrylic mirror that reflects its surroundings more or less perfectly. There are a few dimples and protrusions that bend the light weirdly, a property granted by the artist blasting the material with a heat gun. But that's a good thing, because then at certain angles you know the furniture is in the room.