Starstruck: Star Boxes are not perfect. They are all different. Star Boxes are a little off-center. They always have at least one star in the design.

Publication: Mississippi Magazine

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The above poem, or disclaimer, or caveat, or what-you-will, is printed on a small card that accompanies each of Jackson interior designer Michael Grogan's signature tabletop boxes.

Selecting just one adjective to describe his collection of custom-fabricated boites is as difficult as picking a single adjective to describe the artist and designer himself. Colorful, whimsical, humorous, old-soul, and younger-than-springtime are good words with which to begin.

The boxes themselves had an unusual beginning.

"Well, it all kind of got...

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