Amid piles of tools, a large, winding drill-end drowning in a drawer of pliers asked, arrogantly, ransom…he wanted to be famous for his form, not for his servile role as useful tool, to raise himself, transform himself into something visible, useLess. The recontextualisation was obvious. What could be more useless than a jewel? Our ugly duckling awakes: from rusty steel to shining silver, from humble workman to precious elite. Thus began a blessed partnership generating innumerable offspring: some fine examples, both bolts and cogs, corkscrews and bands, all sorts of ex-ugly ducklings, happy to have gained the freedom to express their form.