Love it or hate it, there’s not much room for ambiguity or apathy with Misha Kahn’s “Backbend Starfish Puts on all Her Jewels for Her Workout.”

This is a collector’s piece of an oversized low table (90” diameter) made of stainless steel, glass, and seashells that glistens and gleams with joie de vivre while expertly dipping its toes into the welcoming waters of kitsch.

Shown this past May at the Nomad Monaco Collectible Design Fair, Backbend Starfish resembles that placid creature, but also any number of creeping, multi-legged crustaceans or arthropods. It also evokes the gargantuan, jewel-hording crab of Moana fame, who loved to gleam and gloat about his manifold accumulations of shiny treasures.

Artist/Designer Misha Kahn has exhibited work at the Friedman Benda Gallery in New York. He is focused on art and design “whose function is masked by the unusual assemblage of objects he uses to create them.” Read more here.