Significant Stars of David

CREDIT: SignificantObjects.com

With the High Holidays fast approaching, why not adorn your holiday table with the Star of David plate, brought to you by the folks at Significant Objects? The brains behind the project, journalists Rob Walker and Joshua Glenn, enlist writers, filmmakers, and others to invent narratives behind, well, objects, which Walker and Glenn then sell on eBay. Adam Harrison Levy, a documentary director and producer, takes a crack at it today, offering a fictional provenance for a plate decorated with Stars of David. In his yarn, he describes taking the bus to meet the late screenwriter Budd Schulberg on Long Island to research a film.

While there, he “spied the plate—which contained some loose change and three paperclips—on the credenza. Something about the simplicity and modernity of its shape reminded me of an Eero Saarinen Tulip Table. The artfully incoherent placement of the stars was like a Dada backdrop. The plate was clearly mass produced. It called out to me. When Schulberg doddered off to take a leak, I slipped the plate—change, paperclips, and all—into my bag.”

Bidding opens at two dollars.

Star of David Plate [Significant Objects]