If Buck Rogers was still around, he would have Jimmy Descant on his payroll and discuss the world as it is with him over martinis on Friday evenings. Descant’s work is one-of-a-kind. Although he assembles various pieces—as small as a salt and pepper shakers, to those as large as a Yugo—he is best known for designing spacey deluxe rocket ships which he builds with discarded canister vacuum cleaners, as well as vintage fire extinguishers, flashlights and thermoses. Descant, who has twice won th...