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Posted October 17, 2007

Before opening her New York–based design studio in 1996, Sandy Chilewich cofounded HUE, a women’s-legwear company. So it seems appropriate that her studio’s first product—Ray Bowls, now available in a limited tenth-anniversary edition from the MoMA Design Store—used a nylon-spandex blend commonly found in hosiery and lingerie, stretched over a simple metal frame to make a colorful cushion for fruit or sundry household bric-a-brac.

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