Paw-shaped cutlery pieces appear to be attempting escape from their sculptural base, as part of this design that LA duo the Haas Brothers created for art collector George Lindemann Jr.
Lindemann commissioned twins Simon and Nikolai Haas to create the silverware for use at his family home in Miami Beach's Sunset Islands.

Each of the 144 knives, forks and spoons in the George II set is cast as a whole, and features a four-digit paw with tiny claws on the end of the handle.
"They're beasts, with some amount of sexual innuendo – like always with [the Haas Brothers]," Lindemann told Dezeen during an interview in Miami last week.

When not in use, the silverware is stored in a console with a wooden top and equally animalistic brass legs. The items rest in individual holes so that they poke up vertically, claws in the air. This gives the impression that they are fighting their way out from captivity.

"This came back as just one of their brilliant ideas," Lindemann said. "It works as well as sculpture as it does as silverware."
"They're all different heights, and they're all trying to get out from in there," he added. "So even when we're not using the silverware, I really enjoy it."

The George II set is titled as a play on George III decorative antique silverware from 18th-century England, along with the name of its commissioner – whose father is also George.
The end result came about after a long search for a design...