I’ve been watching this product come together since it was announced as a Kickstarter project and now it’s available for public sale.
This cunning cutlery is a stainless steel teaspoon that is shaped as a skull. It means you might need 3 instead of 2 spoons of sugar for your tea, but it is all about form not function. It measures 15 x 3.2 x 1.4 cm and I’d suggest you get two as someone will certainly steal your first one.
Around here we prefer the term cutlery obviously but the discussion continues everyday about what we call those utensils that we use to put food in our mouths. What is it called? Cutlery, Flatware or Silverware? Isn’t Silverware supposed to be made of silver?
The above image is some flattened design flatware by Josef Hoffmann.
A great post at The Grammarphobia Blog talks about what is “flat” about Flatware and the history of the terms that we seem to use interchangeably.
He’s carving a unique custom wooden spoon every single day for an entire year. I’m not kidding! This is quite the creative undertaking.
From Staian Korntev Druud’s website:
“The past year I spent most of my time exploring the unique organic qualities of wood and how adding of a function can beautifully refine a piece of wood. The project will eventually consists of 365 unique hand carved spoons made from various types of wood.”
Check them out at Stiankorntvedruud.com/Daily-Spoon
My Sister sent me this photo and it was captioned “Silverware by Tim Burton, available at Macys”. But a little quick googling showed that it’s not Tim Burton but Isaïe Bloch who created this 3D printed flatware masterpiece. And you can buy a printed copy of each piece from his store for about 250 euros each.
According to an article by Beautiful Life:
“Belgian designer Isaïe Bloch explores the notion of decay/processing, ornamental and aesthetic excess as in former rococo and baroque times, moments of collapse/disequilibrium and a balance in between etiquette dining and torture tools. by subverting the logic of perfection and beauty, non-perfect images coming from controlled methodologies are generated.”
Check out his blog at http://eragatory.blogspot.be/
