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Pictures of trowels, shovels, ice tongs and other tools are streamlined into icons painted on the concrete plaza, whose primary colors and basic geometric shapes emulate patchwork quilts.

On a past gig, a pair of giant ice tongs fell into the machine and jammed up the gears.

Conant Metal & Light is a feast for the eyes — dazzling lighting, decorative metalwork and art made from repurposed objects, like canning jars, wrought-iron ice tongs and telephone pole insulators.

Tiffany also plans to add home furnishings and accessories, such as ice tongs and beer mugs, with male customers in mind.

Somehow this is a form of homage, and Tate commemorates the occasion by buying “some ice tongs . . . for which I had no earthly use.”