The bottle is a direct copy from the archives, with an inverted cone-shape base and a taller-than-average brush handle.

WSJ: Cosmetics Flashback

The structure's cone-like shape was designed to reduce wind turbulence, yet there is only one piece of curved glass on the building: a lens-shaped cap at the very top.

FORBES: Magazine Article

Capable of shape-shifting from cone to strata to cylinder, they certainly seem otherworldly, but Rosny offers no explanation for their presence.

NEWYORKER: The Cosmic Menagerie

For the first approach, he shapes a wettened cone of clay on a fast-spinning wheel, gradually turning a small dimple in the top into a bowl shape, which he smooths with a deerskin cloth and releases from its base with one quick draw of a taut wire.

BBC: The art of Japan