This $1,250 status trash can is also an avant-garde piece of art

In the vast, ancient world of product design, there’s one 85-year-old classic so iconic that it’s served as a muse for dozens of artists, including Bono, Yoko Ono, Yves Behar, and Damien Hirst. This product has been turned into a car, a robot, and a grill; crushed in a hydraulic press; re-created into a tiny digital image to use instead of the “trash” icon on computer screens; and covered head-to-toe in feathers. In 2009, it became part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art...