Prepare lounging snacks with this set of three ash wood bowls. Stained in soft, soothing hues, the set is then waxed and polished for deep glowing finish. It is now on sale at the Dwell Store.

Song's walnut nesting bowls are available from Kaufman Mercantile.

Nest Plus 9 Mixing and Measuring Set by Morph for Joseph Joseph, $50.

Fanions by Swiss design trio Linn Kandel, Dimitri Bahler, and Ismael Studer is a collection of three wool felt rugs that offer yet another optical illusion, tricking the eye into glimpses of a three-dimensional object.

Cartagena Nesting Tables by BoConcept, $539 from boconcept.com/en-... This tiny trio from BoConcept offers the surface area of three tables for the footprint of one.

The Dado Cube set from Fat Brain Toy Company includes ten plastic blocks which can interlock to create countless surreal structures.

Living Room: Updating your living room can be as simple as a few new side tables. Try the exquisitely reproduced Albers Nesting Tables made in solid oak and MDF topped with lacquered glass tops in sumptuous shades of green, yellow, orange and blue.

Here's a full set of the three nesting bowls in black. The set goes for $360.

Nikole Herriott also keeps a gorgeous food blog, often highlighting her favorite pieces from the shop and decadent recipes. Photo by Michael Graydon and Nikole Herriott

The food bowls are as smart as they are simple. Contour lines are embossed on the inside to indicate how much food or water the pet has consumed. The bowls not only come in three different sizes, but matching plant pots help create a more cohesive space between the products and the interior.

Resident GP: A web shop stocked with bright and cheery wares from independent designers and makers across the globe. (Handmade Rope Bowls $55, shown)

Mix and Measure Bowls, $16

A colorful crop of Balloon Bowls, each made from dyed synthetic plaster cast within a balloon.

For those seeking to add texture to their timepiece, there's always the Felt Wall Clock desgined by Sebastian Herkner for Leff. Its 60 percent recycled PET felt even has sound-absorbing properties.

Not only are these black resin Nesting Tables elegant, but are non-porous and scratch-resistant. Also available in dual pour and sold individually or as a pair. Castors and custom heights available upon request.

Josef Albers's nesting tables represent one of his earliest, most functional exercises in color theory. Designed in the late 1920s while Albers was at the Bauhaus, the oak-and-glass tables are still available today.

Available in the Dwell store, these Nest 9 Plus polypropylene and plastic nesting measuring cups by Morph for Joseph Joseph are durable and suited for precise and colorful cooks.

Square Bamboo Plates, $30; Bamboo Nesting Bowls, $34; Fluted Bamboo Cups, 22

Noodle Bowls (2011), handbuilt stoneware with slips and glazes, electric-fired or oxidation-fired, by Mary Barringer. Photo: Wayne Fleming. Asparagus Valley Pottery Trail, Massachusetts, 2013. Read the interview.

The bowls come in two sizes, the smaller one at 9 inches diameter is made from 1,000 GB pounds and the larger one at approximately 20 inches diameter is made from 3,000 GB pounds.

Song collaborated with natural dyer Kristine Vejar on a line of indigo-dyed maple bowls for March. "She is an expert natural dyer, a teacher and an artist who's received numerous accolades for her work," she says. "Vejar spent some time as a participatory artist in the Berkeley Art Museum's The Possible exhibit. I had not worked with traditional Japanese indigo dying before but have had some curiosity to dying wood with a natural dye, instead of chemical dyes."

“Money bowls reflect the thin borders between valuable and useless, stable and variable, ancient and contemporary. Stability—one of the bowls basic principles is taken out.” -Arthur Analts

Teema Soup Bowl, $24 at the Dwell Store With the Teema Collection—including this soup bowl—designer Kaj Franck created a range of functional dishes for the home that can be used for more than just serving, including meal prep, heating, storing, and even freezing.

Tanya Aguiñiga Tanya Aguiñiga created the Chiapas stool after working with Mayan weavers in Mexico. "The women create beautiful animals out of hand woven fabrics," Aguiñiga says. "These stools are inspired by the animals and are hand-woven fabric with a wool felt bottom."

FELT SPHERE CARPET Like high style confetti or graphic color pixels, this ultra-soft felt carpet is made of spherical felt pieces woven together artfully in a vibrant spectrum of shades. These whimsical, one-of-a-kind floor coverings add instant pop to any room.

As an introvert and an artist, Leen has a strong aesthetic sensibility. "I always go for the most simple design," she says.

A trio of Aguiñiga's Felt Chairs.

After initially selling her wares—pouffes, pillows, lampshades, rugs, throws—at the craft shop at Royal Tichelaar Makkum, the oldest ceramics company in the Netherlands, Leen now offers her pieces exclusively through her website and out of her studio, under the label Poetryworld.

Another pick for the bathroom—these hand-carved soapstone bowls and trays from India are appealingly earthy and organic.

Quazi Design uses discarded magazines as its base material. All products are handmade by local Swazi women using fiberglass molds, and can be dyed in various shades.

Log Bowls by Loyal Loot Collective “We’ve carried these from day one. Made by an Edmonton-based collective, they become more perfect, shinier and glossier over time. They’re a consistent big seller. They’re a little less functional, but people keep responding.” -- Julie Nicholson

The Ole Jensen Bowls are stable and sturdy kitchen bowls suited for all your food preparations and serving purposes. Featuring handles and spouts, each bowl is a versatile addition to a kitchen. Sold individually, they can be used on their own or nested together for convenient stacking storage.

Dart bowls by Studio Joo WorkOf's collection spans scales, including small objects like handmade bowls and light fixtures by Brooklyn artist Elaine Tian of Studio Joo. Photo by Emily Johnston.

Austrian ceramist Matthias Kaiser experiments with a stunning range of experimental glazes for his pottery, while his sculptural influences range from traditional Japanese pottery to music: "I constantly think about shapes and surfaces, so any glimpse, thought or sound has the potential to germinate into an idea."