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De Cardenas went through a huge ’80s Miami glam phase a few years back, exemplified by pieces like this desk and lamp. “I have loads of it, but I hate a lot of it now because I feel like it’s too metallic,” he says. “This lamp though is the coolest in the world. No one knows what it is — we think someone made it themselves. Because how do you change that bulb? Everything about it is wrong.” Also on the desk are a photograph of mirrored aluminum foil by Anthony Pearson, the influential L.A. social history book City of Quartz, and an LP single by Car Clutch, the band fronted by OHWOW co-founder Aaron Bondaroff.