5 Best Coffee Gadgets & Tools Built for People Who Take Their Morning Seriously
The morning ritual is one of the few parts of the day that still belongs entirely to you. Before the notifications, the meetings, the noise,…
Tableware
L’Objet Secretly Built Its Best Tableware Around a Single Shell
I’ve always thought shells are underrated as design references. They’re one of nature’s most perfect spirals, built by something soft and unassuming, yet the shape…
Pikachu Just Got Hidden Inside Your Coffee Mug, and Pokémon Fans Are Going to Lose It
Pikachu has appeared on a lot of things over the past 30 years — Alfredo Häberli’s Origo tableware wasn’t exactly the obvious next stop. Finnish…
These $30 Chopsticks Were Refined 40 Times to Fix Your Tired Hand
I didn’t grow up in a chopsticks household. Spoons and forks were de rigueur at our table, but once I learned how to use chopsticks,…
5 Japanese-Made Kitchen Tools That Make Instant Ramen Look Like Fine Dining
Japanese kitchen tools have a way of reframing what you thought was a small decision. The bowl you use, the grater you reach for, the…
The $50 Titanium Cup That Refuses to Ruin Your Whiskey
I’ve broken more shot glasses than I care to admit, and I’ve also poured a good shot of whisky into a glass that smelled faintly…
DYSH Cooks Dinner, Serves It, and Leaves Just One Thing in the Sink
Cooking a single meal usually means dirtying a pot, a plate, and whatever serving dish stands between them, three separate objects doing what feels like…
Kellogg’s Hired a Designer to Make Your Cereal’s Crackling Louder — and It’s Gloriously Weird
Whether you’re a milk-before-cereal guy or a cereal-before-milk guy (the only correct process btw), there’s an undeniable component about the cereal-eating experience that almost everyone…
This Brutalism-inspired ceramic brewer makes pour-over coffee and gongfu tea in the same set
Some brewing setups look like they belong in a kitchen. Purestone looks like it escaped from an architect’s desk. With its faceted black ceramic…
Heinz’s New Lid Has 3 Settings Based on Your Love Language
Ketchup people are serious people. Not in an uptight way, but in the way that they know exactly what they want: a precise drizzle over…
A Designer Curled a Single Sheet of Aluminum Like Paper to Make a Grater That Fits Perfectly in Your Palm
Most graters are a negotiation. The box grater comes out, takes up half the counter, threatens your knuckles on every pass, and goes back in…
Artefilo Makes Home Objects From Elephant Grass and Hospital Cabinets
The sustainable home goods market has a specific credibility problem. Products marketed as eco-conscious often get there through incremental adjustments, reducing a percentage of virgin…
The One Thing Fine Dining Can’t Control Is Temperature, Until Now
Temperature is one of the few things in fine dining that no one fully controls once a dish leaves the kitchen. A perfectly cooked piece…
The Only Thing Missing From This LEGO Coffee Set Is the Smell
LEGO fans are obsessive. Coffee fans are obsessive. Somewhere at the exact intersection of those two fandoms sits ModularManiac’s Coffee Collection, a build that exists…
Lift This Handblown Glass and Find a Smile Left Behind by Your Drink
Condensation on glassware is typically treated as a design problem to be contained. Coasters exist to hide what cold drinks leave behind, and most glasses…
Five Years, One Bowl, and a Woodturner Who Refused to Quit
Most of us abandon a project after a few weeks of frustration. Olivier Gomis sat on one for five years, then came back and finished…