Looking through our photo archive of the Laboratory renovation, we came across this image of an olive fork improvised by Roberto, a stunningly-outside-the-box-creative of a carpenter who was part the construction team. Being Portuguese, he loved olives and bought a jar for his lunch one day. Having no fork with which to spear them, he…made one out of some wire that he found lying around the job site.

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It reminded us a little of something Alexander Calder would have devised had he needed a fork and had some bits of wire on hand. He used to whip up cooking utensils for his wife Louisa, like these beauties, made out of silver or aluminum:

They’re from Calder at Home, one of our favorite books of inspiration.