Daily Toil: Ravenhill Studio's "Everyday Objects"

"With a touch of art direction, these objects neither transform nor offer transcendence, but they do make strange the act of living."

By Mimi Zeiger

Every year, for the past five years, the good folks at Ravenhill Studio in Los Angeles publish Everyday Objects. Each volume presents a trove of quotidian things selected by a set of creatives within the studio’s orbit.

Launched online just in time for the holidays, it is, ostensibly, an elevated gift guide—burnished to shine by the keen ju…