“Table for two, please. Thank you. Oh I see you’ve prepared a table which emphasizes the fact that we are in love. Thank you again!” Welcome, to you, to “dinner4two”, a contraption made by the romantically named designer Ricardo Sa Freire. Take a moment to explore the same-plate, the broken heart glass, and the snug split-line table. Kisses!
Designer: Ricardo Sa Freire
When a naked Archimedes ran down the streets of Syracuse screaming, “Eureka! Eureka!”; people thought he had become loony. Later on they realized that the genius had just hit upon the Buoyancy Theory when he jumped into his bathtub. Similar to this story is the silver T-Man Tea Strainer. The only twist to this tale is that if T-Man jumps out of your steeping cup of tea, YOU RUN down the streets screaming, “GHOST! GHOST!”
Designer: Jeewon Jung
Lotus is a wireless cooking system that offers an elegant alternative to the conventional static hob. Each piece is specifically designed for various cooking styles and meal types. There is a tepan yaki plate, a wok hob (the bowl like piece), a grill plate and induction plates. The pieces are powered using resonant induction. There are transmission coils hidden beneath the counter top and receiving coils in each of the pieces. Power can be transferred to one or all of the pieces at any one time.
Designers: David Barry & Laurence Finnegan
Barely have we come out of appreciating the Enso that we have another innovative way of making and serving a hot beverage. The Mateando is the Spanish way of serving your cuppa in a very stylish ceramic set. The three-layer construction consists of “a yerbera, a sugar bowl and a mate”. Sugar is understood, mate here is the brew cup, but pardon my Spanish I don’t know what yerbera means! Hot ceramic can blister your hand, that’s why a special leather sleeve has been included round the cup. Someone may as well whisper leather to Starbucks!
Designer: Eliana Vincenzo
Perhaps you have heard of this beautiful flower? It catches the eye, it enthralls the mind, it lies in the water existing only to be beautiful. All of these fancy qualities were necessary in order for designer Sait Alanyali to come up with this whimsical tea set. In the same way that the mind blooms on the refreshing taste combinations of the tea, the flower expands, open to welcome back the empty cup again – cradling it as you leave it once more in the bosom of the pedal bed.
Designer: Sait Alanyali
I should break it to you now, despite your first impression of this lunch box from Designer Alex Cheong, it does not include 8GB of music/video storage and a 5″ LCD. Rather, it does what a lunch box should do, more fully prepare and package your lunchtime experience by warming up your meal through an internal film heater. That said, I would stay away from storing beverages inside, unless you enjoy warm Coca Cola as much as I do.
Designer: Alex Cheong
It’s the Valentine month, and love is in the air. Planning out gifts, romantic dinners, cards…awesome fun! Care to sparkle the evening a bit? Dine in elegance in exquisite settings with gourmet food, candlelights and good old charm! Perhaps lightWARE cutlery will illuminate the ambience; after all it’s a heady combination of silver, crystal and LED lights.
Designer: David Veldkamp
Has this ever happened to you? *Cup ring on nose*
Well me too! Always with the cup ring on the nose from the wanting to get the liquid out of the cup. And not only that, designer AMINATION (aka Amin Saadat), has got a thing or two to say about all the “fats and bacteria from the edge of the glass.”
Designer: Amination, aka Amin Saadat
Portable beverage heaters aren’t anything new but the “Hottie” attempts to 1-up the competition by using silver as the conductive metal, with 3 modular containers to hold instant coffee, creme, and sugar. All this in one neat little package.
Designer: Arpan Maiti
This is so easy to figure out I don’t even have to explain it. I think it’s fabulous for camping, drinks, picnics, impromptu gatherings, or even when you’re too lazy to wash dishes. Tho you can use the Foldable Bowl for just about anything, I’d avoid hot foods. My only gripe is the material. Plastic, really? Do we need to go down that road again? I didn’t step into some alternate universe where plastic and nature get along fabulously right?
Designer: Gowoon Jeong
I love me some tea but sometimes I’m just too lazy to properly steep lose leaf teas in a separate pot. I just want the whole shabang done in a nicely designed cup, not just some cheap mesh screen. Enter the LOTUS Gaibei. Beautiful double-walled porcelain cup with a sliding lid/strainer. I’m sure you could deduce how it works from the pictures. I especially love the ridges meant to look like the veins of lotus leaves. DO WANT!
Designer: Woody Hsieh
While few lunchtime experiences can best a classic superhero inspired box, these foldout gourmet lunch boxes by Emma smart definitely go the distance. Winning her a D&AD Yellow Pencil in packaging design, the challenge was to categorically separate the boxes while maintaining an overall sense of visual unity. Now if only there were one with a licensed fictional character I could pretend to be during lunch, my life would be complete.
Designer: Emma Smart
Those who pride themselves in balancing the flat tray above their head have had their head above the clumsy rest of us. This “Drink’Tray” has finger holes for you to grip. You can grip tight and no more spillin’ for you. Use it at home to feel like a pro, or bring it to work for restaurant madness. Like training wheels for those servicing the drunk grabby-types.
Designer: Martino D'Esposito
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