<p>I advance an Aristotelian approach by which we shall find a unified account of technical artefacts and artworks. The unification is conceptually available to Aristotle not because he does not have a semantic distinction between these two classes or because he lived in times characterised by simple art-making and rudimental technology, but because he both (i) has a working definition of the class of what I call “products” that is broad enough to accommodate technical artefacts and artworks alike, plus <i>a few other things</i> (ii) and assigns functions to artworks. However, I shall argue that both tenets are typical of the inquiry of the natural philosopher as opposed to the inquiry of the metaphysician. Indeed, according to a metaphysical perspective, functions are not the primary target in accounting for an object’s being, be it a technical artefact or an artwork. I shall call the metaphysician’s perspective “unity-based” and the perspective of the natural philosopher, which branches out into philosophy of technology and philosophy of art, “function-based”. I show that a fresh Aristotelian approach of the sort I am offering has higher explanatory power than previously attempted Aristotelian approaches.</p>