BEAR STL 02 Red

Sculpture rather than toy: the bear is pared back to its essentials — heavy head, sloped shoulder, deep haunch — in the way a carved wooden ornament handles the same animal. Mass is the point. It reads as a solid, weighty creature from across a room, then rewards a closer look with the set of the legs and the line of the muzzle. Bears carry particular associations in decorating: cabins, pine forest, Scandinavian and North American folk craft. That puts this one on a bookshelf, a mantelpiece, a hall table or a desk that needs something with presence rather than something useful. The numbering marks it as one of a series, which makes it a natural companion if you already own others from the same designer and a perfectly self-contained ornament if this is your first.