Sometimes on this blog we showcase the difficult to obtain or just downright impossible to get your hands on. This falls under difficult but worth it if you can.

A design studio in Japan has created a cutlery set inspired by prehistoric flint artifacts. The Sekki set was created by Nendo in collaboration with the metalwork firm Kobayashi Kogyo. To quote Nendo:

“We designed a three-piece dessert cutlery set to show off the firm’s strengths. The silhouette of the spoon, fork and knife are warped and crooked, to recall prehistoric flint implements.”

“The pieces’ thickness and weight recalls stone, too, and we flattened the pieces’ backs to further make the connection with cutlery carved from lumps of stone, pressing the metal sheets seven times, rather than the usual one. We sandblasted the concave areas of the surface for a matte finish and polished the rest to a mirror-like smoothness and shine, so that the pieces feel carved out of the metal. And each piece of cutlery itself resembles a primitive tool, carved from a lump of rock.”

Rather specific to make it dessert flatware for the Flintstones. But the design is wonderful.

Read more at Nendo

David Rogerson Mellor, (5 October 1930 – 7 May 2009) was an English designer, manufacturer, craftsman and retailer.

Known as one of the best-known cutlery designers in Britain if not the world (Britain being the center of the world of flatware), David Mellor specialized in metalwork and especially cutlery, to such an extent that he was often referred to as “The Cutlery King”.

Now here’s the part I find interesting: not many realize that David Mellor also designed the traffic light in 1965 and that millions of them continue to flash red, yellow and green at every intersection around the world. Oh, and he designed bus shelters and nice teapots and many many other things…

A very kind, gifted and talented man who should be remembered.

His biography “Master Metalworker” from Amazon