In the 1980s Judaica artists began to reexamine the form of the Hanukkah lamp, which according to rabbinical prescription should have eight lights in a straight row and on the same level, with a ninth set off from them. Peter Shire typically takes familiar objects and reimagines their shapes, colors, and materials so that we barely recognize them. Here, a mixture of pastel and hot colors, industrial metals, and a cantilevered, swirling arrangement of parts challenge the modernist aesthetic of simplicity that had dominated design for a century. This “Post”-modernism was a key design principle of the Memphis design group to which Shire belonged.