Category: Bowl

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?

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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