Quick: What do a cow vase, a Sanka ashtray, and a rhino figurine all have in common? They are all the subjects of stories by writers like Ed Park, Luc Sante, Curtis Sittenfeld and Lydia Millet – stories featured in the Significant Objects Project.

The idea : “A talented, creative writer invents a story about an object. Invested with new significance by this fiction, the object should — according to our hypothesis — acquire not merely subjective but objective value. How to test our theory? Via eBay!”

http://significantobjects.com/