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Oblong surfaces and short legs define Sebastian Herkner’s Sinja coffee table, a piece reflective of traditional low tables around which families in Mr. Niksic’s native Bosnia and Herzegovina would dine while sitting on the floor.

Unlike table grapes, which tend to be oblong, muscadines are round, with particularly shiny flesh.

Although he uses green grapes for daytime parties, for evening events he prefers the “moody, sensual vibe” of dark varieties — like the attenuated, oblong moon drops that the artist Laila Gohar, 35, mixed with red globes and flames to form an edible monolith for the recent opening of the Essentiel Antwerp clothing store in New York.

Belts had oblong buckles resembling a vehicle grating.

Depending on the neighborhood, you might see a little white oblong box that looks like it could pick up sound.