Showcase Spotlight: Frisper
My friend in San Diego is a big-time chef, and she spends a lot of money -- a tonne of money -- on expensive kitchen equipment because well, she can and she needs to. A while back, she went out…
Continue Reading →Porsche Design + Poggenpohl Kitchen
Porsche Design is certainly tapped into "what men want," and its new collaboration with luxury kitchen designer Poggenpohl is a reminder that men like to spend time in the kitchen too (and what guy wouldn't want to spend time in…
Continue Reading →Side-On Cutlery For Mater
Loving this new cutlery set by my uber-design pal Jens Marin Skibsted (Biomega, Skibsted Ideation, et al). The design idea was to incorporate a chopstick rest (Hashi Oki) into some dead-sexy Scandinavian design cutlery. Methinks it worked; the whole integration…
Continue Reading →shopmodi eat collection
Not everyone can be Bobby Flay with a fish fillet. In the case that your culinary creations aren't exactly works of art, shopmodi has come up with several other ways to turn your dining room table into an art gallery.…
Continue Reading →Normann Copenhagen: Form by Charles Job
The quirky Danish design group Normann Copenhagen is at again. In this range of products, entiteld Form, they brought in the African/Swiss designer Charles Job. He makes egg timers (left), egg slicers (right), and salt and pepper shakers (not shown)…
Continue Reading →Baker's Edge
It's funny, because unlike most of the things I'm led to write about, the subject of this post has been snaking its way into an increasing number of my girl-to-girl conversations. Maybe it's because the subject in question could be…
Continue Reading →Waste Not, Want Not
Peter D'Alessandro's Waste and Want cutting board has little detachable trays on its ends, one tray for waste and the other for the good bits you want in your food. Everybody can identify with the frustrations of regular cutting boards;…
Continue Reading →Aquarela Refrigerator
Our refrigerator door is littered with so much roommate correspondence, that even with the addition of some colorful fridge magnets for the local pizza delivery and favorite manicure/pedicure place, it's not exactly an appetizing scene that confronts one on their…
Continue Reading →MUD Australia
Finding the balance between mass-production while maintaining a handmade aesthetic may be a struggle for many designers, but MUD Australia seem to manage it effortlessly. Founded in 1994 by Shelly Simpson, the line is completely microwave, food and dishwasher safe,…
Continue Reading →OMG we heart the FAB28URR
Heather and I just found a new source of idolatry in the FAB28URR, a 50's style refrigerator by Italian innovators SMEG. Hailed by NYMag as the next SubZero (a claim that, while debatable, we may embrace if only for the…
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