You needn't look far to find designer items that highlight the one-of-a-kind beauty of salvaged wood, but now for something a little different: Jacob Antoni's 14-by-14-centimetre cubes with inset candle holders. "I wanted to make something that played with the beauty of their grain, and highlighted their density," says Antoni, who used white oak and pine from an old barn in Ontario and walnut from a log he found. "As these older trees grew more slowly than today's farmed trees, they are a lot more dense and durable." Working with the natural flow of each cube's wood grain, Antoni added copper inlays – treated to various hues – to hold sticks and tea lights in various combinations on all the sides, allowing the user to flip the cube around for myriad lighting configurations. $200 through jacobantoni.com