Cassette - Ornament

Mixtapes used to mean something specific, and the Cassette Ornament remembers that with reels visible through a clear painted window and a hand-lettered label on the front. Hand-blown glass takes on a glossy black shell with silver screw detailing at each corner, the reels rendered in fine, careful lines so they read as genuinely mechanical rather than flat. A loop set at the top edge stays hidden until the piece turns toward a light source. Anyone who once spent an afternoon carefully sequencing a mixtape for someone, or a younger generation who only knows the shape from thrift stores, will find something to connect with here.