Along with making steel, brass, and wooden sculptures, Richardt created minimalist designs For more than a decade for Danish design studio Frame: Taglite, Salon Chair, Candles, shelf system, “very minimalist” lamp for the restaurant Noma.
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Frama delivered tool one, however, so Richardt kept it home until he found a battery studio VearkAlso in Copenhagen, which makes tools inspired by professional kitchens. For co -founders Daniel Ronge and Christian Lorentzen, it was love initially a staff.
We are joking about the pure simplicity of this matter, but Richardt’s inspiration has come, of course, partly from tools in Asia. Cooks, often made of bamboo, have long been used by professional chefs to taste and sample in the kitchen.
“I had a few sticks at home, which I used to move my oatmeal in the morning for a few years, and it was a little too small to do that,” he says. “Then I thought I could make it bigger into a design that could also overturn a growth. In Japan, they actually have some big enough sticks, but they still use them in pairs when they move, and they are very funny. “
And there is more practicality. Wood tools can take decades for years for silicon alternatives (if correctly cleaned and stored), and there are a lot of discussion Recently over how many toxic chemicals regular black plastic spathers could expose users.
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As for design, it is clear that we are going in this direction for a while, prepared to covet more and more from less and less. Minimalist Joseph Joseph kitchen tools and stacking bowls to which we had been strangely attracted for a while, while Jony Ive did for computers what his predecessors in industrial design made for, for example, iconic chairs and lamps.
Abstract wooden scandi-baby toys in beige, cream and cool grays, however, can be quite outraged. They should be bright red and bright green and make a lot of noise. And we cannot stand. Ridiculous. They just take the piss. But I think we can safely say that you cannot get more minimalist than a stick.
As Wired editor -in -chief Jeremy White exclaims, “How can something so ridiculous be so desirable?” Is a vigorous stick essentially more machistic than a spoon, maybe? More like something The bear Carmy Berzatto could throw across a kitchen?
“It’s a humble tool. I was surprised by the simple thing to have a stick to move your food, “says Richardt laughing. “It led me back to something … I couldn’t explain it, but it was a pleasant feeling. I felt a little like I was taken back to the Neanderthals. “
