Star Trek Headphone Stand

Headphones spend most of the day off your head, and a stand is what stops them living on the desk under a coffee mug. This one takes its cue from Starfleet: the delta insignia and the swept nacelle lines of the Enterprise silhouette are the visual language Star Trek desk pieces borrow from, worked here into an upright with an arch across the top to hang a pair of cans from. It is a fan object as much as a functional one. Sitting beside a Trek mug and a model ship it reads as part of a set, while on a bare desk it reads as a slightly odd piece of sculpture, which is the trick. A two-file desk accessory for the sort of setup where the peripherals get chosen as carefully as the machine, and an easy gift for a Trek-watching colleague.