After Modernist Cuisine‘s first two books, their debut encyclopedia of kitchen knowledge and their lighter at home edition, the kitchen scientists at Washington’s Bellvue-based lab embarked on a new kind of adventure—creating products that “help people cook better,” says director of applied research Scott Heimendinger. “Our enemy is bad cooking whatever and wherever that might be.” Heimendinger and the Modernist Cuisine Lab’s first project is, …
They’ve been around for thousands of years, but Furoshiki are making a fresh, practical comeback thanks in part to Japan Store. Once cherished as the precious carrier of royal and holy robes, the Japanese cloth squares were also used as bathmats centuries ago but today, they can be used as anything from a tote to a shawl. Returning to favor as the ubiquity of plastic …
Much like Ólöf Jakobína’s Marmo table, So by Sonja is similarly inspired by Iceland’s imposing lanscape and brightly colored architecture. Created by Sonja Björk Ragnarsdóttir, the range’s first product, Candlestick 5, take its name from its form. The pentagonal shape makes for non-linear arrangements, a subtly purposeful detail which hints at the designer’s playful approach to industrial design. Made entirely in Iceland the solid aluminum …
