What better way to usher out the profligate design culture of the Bush era than to have these Alien Gnome Bandits escort your Philippe Starck Gnome thingee back where it belongs–into the past. Utah artist Fred Conlon, who sculpts the bandits out of recycled metal, claims they are just the thing for your “helpless, hapless” and useless garden gnome.

Those helpless, hapless, useless Starck gnomes. (Courtesy Kartell)

Tags: excess, gnomes, Kartell, knick knacks, Philippe Starck