Though it debuted as a Classicon product in 2022, Corker began its life at the London Serpentine Gallery in the summer of 2012, where it furnished Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron’s pavilion, designed in collaboration with Chinese artist Ai Weiwei. Inspired by the bottle stopper, one of the material’s most enduring applications, the piece comes in three sizes (a new marble version was launched in 2023).