Dinnerware Inspired by the Dada Art Movement, Plus Four Other Clever Finds

At Clever, we aim to find the good stuff: unexpected decorating ideas, accents and furniture that brighten your day, news you need to know—and then deliver it straight to you. Here’s a roundup of five things that stopped us in our tracks this week that we wanted to make sure you didn’t miss.

Practical dinner boxes from snack brand DADA Daily We had a long-standing love affair with DADA Daily’s skull-shaped packaging when the Dada-inspired brand launched last year, and its new tablescape is just as Instagram-worthy. The Ta-DADA Daily dinnerware set comes with a hand-shaped candle that melts to give your guests the finger (!), four brass napkin rings and a set of place cards, as well as a selection of the brand’s sweet and savory bites. dadadaily.com

Why Garfield Phones Keep Appearing on a Beach in France “For over 30 years, bits of Garfield’s telephones have been washing up on the beaches of northwestern France, and no one really knew why. Where did this lasagne-loving cartoon cat come from?” begins the article Washington Post Last week, a group of journalists and environmentalists finally solved the mystery. Read the article to find out for yourself. Washington Post

The organization secrets of designer Beata Heuman In our November issue, visit Beata Heuman’s London home, ANNOUNCEMENT Decorative arts editor Mitchell Owens describes the designer’s style as “lively, practical, bohemian in its effect, but consciously, but not puritanically, spare.” Clearly, she’s a master at balancing good and bad clutter. And now you can be, too, thanks to the nine tips she shared with The New York Times Style Magazine.nytimes.com

Guaranteed Rainbow Sighting in Alexandria, Virginia New York design studio SOFTlab’s new public art installation for the city of Alexandria is a semicircle of mirrored pieces with a monochrome exterior and a rainbow-colored interior. At 25 feet in diameter and about 8 feet tall, the work is large enough for passersby to walk inside and interact with it. When the LED lights embedded in the structure hear a sound, they light up, making the outward-facing panels momentarily transparent. See it for yourself in November. alexandria.gov/publicart

The imaginative creations of Parisian designer Garance Vallée We’ve been keeping an eye on painter, sculptor, and architect Garance Vallée. Her whimsical drawings and landscape-inspired installations are nothing to sneeze at, but we’re particularly obsessed with the stained concrete and plaster objects she created for her first solo show at Swing Design Gallery in Italy. sightunseen.com