Traveler Zita at Maison & Objet 2013

The perfect travel companion for herbal tea enthusiasts

by Dora Haller With special focus on kitchen utilities, this autumn’s Maison & Objet—the Parisian design trade show which ran from 6-10 September—offered simple innovations alongside more decadent wares. CH enthusiastically trawled through the vast array on display and found the Traveler Zita by environmentally responsible brand Finum to be a standout. For drinkers of fresh herbal tea, Traveler Zita is the ideal companion when …

SodaStream Source Bottle by Yves Béhar

A reusable bottle design sleek enough to match its namesake soda maker

After being wowed by Yves Béhar‘s SodaStream redesign a year or so ago, CH became steady users of the Source soda maker. While the machine itself is sleek enough to stand alone on the kitchen counter, the rather bulbous bottles always lived behind cabinet doors. To solve this gap in design cohesiveness, SodaStream launched a new reusable bottle designed by Béhar to match his system …

Range Smart Thermometer

Cook to perfection with an iOS-enabled kitchen tool complete with mobile alerts and temperature graphing

A lucky few are born with the ability to cook perfect dishes time and again. For the rest of us, there’s the Range: A smart thermometer that measures and records temperature, sending alerts to your mobile devices when your food is ready—or more accurately, almost ready. This means no longer being housebound when making brisket or ruining yet another batch of home brew because of …