NEW COLLABORATION WITH LARS TORNØE
Tornøe has been working with furniture and product design since 2006. He collaborates with renowned manufacturers in various product categories, such as Muuto (you've probably seen The Dots), Vestre, Fora Form, Figgjo and now also Arven. Tornøe's work is often shown at international exhibitions and he has won a number of awards, including the DOGA Award for Good Design, the Red Dot Award and the Bo Bedre Designer of the Year.
Lars became acquainted with Arven through two assignments for Bocuse d'Or, the world's most prestigious culinary competition. He was tasked with designing the pieces on which the food would be presented, and Arven had been chosen as the manufacturer of the silver details.
In the wake of the competition, we wanted to continue the collaboration and create a product that is suitable for production in slightly larger quantities. The result was Pinch, a set of small, personal cups for salt and pepper that can of course also be used for other spices. The small bowls are designed with the aim of using your fingers to take a pinch of, for example, salt and sprinkle it over your food.
Lars about Pinch:
The starting point for the body is a cylinder with a generous rounding down towards the table. This transition means that the side and bottom of the bowl are experienced as a continuous surface. The rounding gives the product a friendly design language and can arouse the desire to pick it up and feel the comfortable shapes.
The actual contact surface in the bowls is a concave parabola that is deep enough to hold a little spice, but shallow enough to easily reach with your fingers. The edge at the top of the bowl is relatively sharp, both to mark the distinction between inside and outside, but also to give more control if you want to pick up the entire bowl and pour directly over the food.
What I like best about this product is holding the bowl in your hand and feeling the weight of solid metal, it gives a feeling of quality and robustness. The product also feels much more personal than, for example, a vase or lamp where physical contact is not as obvious.
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