Category: Bowl

Fish Bowls

Roger Arquer’s charming designs challenge the iconic image of the fish bowl. The attractive bowls come in fifteen different varieties which serve to personify the fish within. The bowls speak to the prescribed personality traits of pet fish. “Do Not Piss Me Off” describes the human power to decide between the life and death of the fish with a symbolic drain plug. “Suicidal Tendencies” is a bowl that prevents unhappy fish from jumping out. “Private Matters” provides an opaque area for fish who are tired of living in glass houses. “Above Water” lets your fish share its water with the plant above.

The designs are elegantly simple, sometimes so subtle that it is necessary to look twice to see what alteration has been made to the classic fish bowl. Yet the simplicity of the physical bowl in no way translates to simplicity of ideas. Richard Arquer has managed to say so much about our most overlooked pets with a perfectly minimal design. The bowls provide an endearing twist to the typical fish home. Now your little pet can have a silly, sarcastic, or playful little personality!

→ More images

The Boat Series

Danish born and Copenhagen based designer Ditte Fischer specialises in hand-crafted ceramics. Some of Fischer’s work, such as the Boat Series have made its mark as a modern design classic.

All products within the Boat Series, which include the boat bowls, classic vases, teapot, and cups, have been moulded in china and only manufactured in Denmark. The stylishly finished ceramic pieces, available in a range of colours, have been dyed to provide them with a beautiful and lush materiality. Not merely ornamental, these pieces are highly durable and suitable for everyday use.

Impressive craftsmanship with a simple and exquisite finish.

→ More images

Silva/Bradshaw

Without friends where would we be? My good friend Sonia of Area22 dropped us a line about Silva/Bradshaw, a small design studio based in Brooklyn, New York. Apparently, they have something good to offer – and yes they do!

Silva/Bradshaw, founded in 2010, is the combination of Sergio Silva and Matthew Bradshaw. Their portfolio spans furniture, jewelry and industrial design – and they’re also working on the design and branding of a restaurant.

As wide as their focus is, I’m impressed by the elegance and freshness of throughout their work. It’s just a pleasure to look at, isn’t it?!

(Pssst, they actually sell their jewelry online – and it’s quite affordable!)

→ More images

Hug

Fruit bowl Hug must be one of the most minimalist concepts I have seen in a while. It has reduced the fruit bowl to its most basic fuction: holding the fruit in its place.

The bottomless Hug was designed by Elizabeth Cordes when she worked as a product designer at DESU Design. Cordes left DESU a while back and is currently self-employed.

There is just one problem though: how should I move my fruit?

→ More images

Bone china bowls and tea lights

As fine and smooth as egg shells, these bone china bowls and tea lights from British designer Caroline Swift are paper thin, beautifully translucent, yet incredibly strong.

Each piece is unashamedly unique in shape and form, as they are all hand-crafted by Swift herself. All the items for sale reflect her philosophy of ‘slow design‘, where a sense of pleasure and pride is taken in the production and the quality of the pieces.

Swift recently moved to Barcelona – I’m eager to see how her new environment will inspire her!

→ More images

5 Objects Bowl

The archetype of a bowl: a half sphere. Problem with half spheres: they tip over. That’s why we usually add a rim to the bottom, of flatten the base.

This bronze bowl by John Pawson, the famous minimalist architect, is that perfect hemisphere. No flatness on the base that disrupts the smooth curve of the profile – but this bowl can still sit perfectly upright or slightly tilted.

This is all thanks to an entirely invisible but no less fundamental second material: sand, contained within the double walls of the bowl.

Pawson made his perfect bowl as part of a series of ’5 Objects’ for When Objects Work.

→ More images

Hedy collection

This beautiful bone china coffee cup was designed by Hannah Morrow, an English designer living in LA. The bone china is super thin – almost see-through.

The cup is part of her Hedy collection, which consists of just three items: a coffee cup, a small vase, and a medium-sized bowl. Morrow herself calls the collection:

[...] a celebration of the ceramic tradition of handmade fine bone china. It brings a beauty to each piece that is deceptively simple.

→ More images

Work

This ceramic serie of five ornaments is from Dick van Hoff which he has made is collaboration with Royal Tichelaar Makkum in the Netherlands.

He decided to make some practical desk products instead of traditional living room or dinner table products.

The outcome was the series Work: two table lamps, a clock, a vase and a pen-tray. The pieces are made in a functional blend of wood and ceramics. Without the wooden structures the products would actually be highly unpractical.

→ More images