Don’t eat the burger, it's a stool

Food-inspired stools collected by Carmack at his home in Danbury. Photos: George Etheredge/©2025 The New York Times Company

Jonny Carmack was perusing the aisles of a store in his hometown Danbury in Connecticut, the United States when he first saw it: a giant strawberry sitting on a shelf.

Carmack, 32, a content creator, was awestruck. "I was just like, oh my gosh, it’s so cute,” he said. "It’s so whimsical.”But this strawberry didn’t come from the vine. In fact, it was a ceramic table with the cartoonish likeness of a strawberry.