That Amanda Levete’s chromed bowl resembles a piece of mangled scrap metal is part of its intrigue: The private, handwritten message “this is designed especially by me for you with love” has been expanded into a 3-D form that hides its meaning from everyone but its owner. Levete offered the design to Materialise MGX because the complex twists of each letter and the gaps they create would otherwise be difficult to realize, even by hand. “Especially For You is completely freeform, without any geometric logic,” Levete says.

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