“This is our dining table, but it’s also where I keep my laptop, so it’s the place where I spend the most time in my house. The bird candles are high-end Chinese replicas of a European ornament. My wife and I bought them six years ago in a store on Fifth Avenue. She called me at work one day and said, “You have to come because I found something really nice!” So I biked over to the store right away. The price wasn’t cheap — $600 — but we liked them very much so we bought them. Now the price has gone up and tremendously so it’s a nice little investment. I like that they are not identical, the birds have different positions and they have nice details like insects crawling over the fruit.”