Handmade 2015: the sketchbook
Wallpaper* Handmade is packed with strokes of genius. A design happens in the act of sketching and modelling, a thinking out loud, a reverse engineering. For Handmade, built on new and sometimes unlikely creative partnerships, these workings-out carry an extra charge. Here is a selection of Handmade 2015’s most revealing prep and plotting...
Forager’s gilet
Hunter and Thom Hunt
If anyone needs functional attire, it’s the new model forager. Niall Sloan, design director at Hunter, and Thom Hunt, a leading UK foraging expert, came up with this multifaceted gilet, which includes a removable waterproof pocket, a built in carabiner and more
Prosciutto carving set
Piero Lissoni and Knindustrie
The veteran designer Lissoni teamed up with fledgling company Knindustrie to create this sleek, modern carving set, which combines cool, satin-finished stainless steel with the warmth of Canaletto walnut
Spoon set
David Collins Studio and Cutipol
Inspired by his own collection of vintage cutlery, David Collins Studio’s Simon Rawlings devised this signature spoon set – appropriate for cheese, oysters, eggs, caviar, sorbet and soup
’Hygge’ serving board
Koichi Futatsumata and Skagen
Named after the Danish word for the cosy atmosphere of a friendly gathering, this Japanese cypress tray with brass legs is fitted with a slender hourglass in honour of Skagen’s timepiece portfolio
Carrom table
Amy Somerville and Peter Nencini
The traditional table game is given an expressive new design with inlaid veneers and carefully considered linework
’Scarabei/Scaradei’ dinner service
Nigel Coates and Richard Ginori
A collector of Ginori’s porcelain, British architect Coates has combined his favourite dinner service – 1740’s ’Antico Doccia’ – with decorative elements drawn from the Italian’s archive, freely mixing figuration and abstraction
’Neolithic’ bar
Studio Mackereth, Royal Salute and Jack Badger
Crafted from ancient, petrified oak – some of it 8,000 years old – the bar references the ageing processes of timber and whisky in this collaboration between the London architects (Studio Mackereth), Derbyshire carpenters (Jack Badger) and the feted whisky company (Royal Salute)
’The Eater’ credenza
Roman and Williams, Olollo and Porzellan Manufaktur Nymphenburg
Inspired by the American Arts and Crafts movement, this sapele-wood sideboard was designed to display Nymphenburg’s delicate tableware
Chef’s bag
Davide Oldani and Tod’s
This collaboration between luxury leather goods brand Tod’s and chef Davide Oldani is an elegant tote, specially designed for transporting bread; holes punctured into the bag’s supple calfskin leather allow air to circulate around a warm loaf, cooling it as it is carried
’Vellum’ chandelier
Marcelo Bicudo, Vermeil and La Lampe
LED-lined wood arches aim to replicate the atmosphere created by a candlelit chandelier
’Chair 182’ bistro chair
Carmody Groarke, Joe Pipal and Bistrotheque
Light, durable and affordable to mass produce: this is the ultimate bistro chair, say its designers, architects Carmody Groarke and Bistrotheque founders David Waddington and Pablo Flack. Made of plywood held together by cork-lined joints, the chair is a marvel of simplicity and robust minimalism
’Tuju’ chef-gardener toolkit
Ivan Ralston, Brunno Jahara and Rubens Simöes/Riva
For the chef who grows his own, the set includes tools, a trug, plates and a planter, all in gold-finished stainless steel, plus a marble cutting board, created in collaboration between the Brazilian trio of chef Ralston, designer Jahara and Rubens Simöes’ table- and kitchenware maker Riva
’Rotunda Serotina’ snack bar
Kolman Boye Architects, Benchmark, AHEC and T’a Milano
At this pick ’n’ mix sweet shop-inspired wonder, savoury snacks are served on individual cherry-wood trays; a movable ladder helps with the heights. The piece is a collaboration between the Stockholm- and Copenhagen-based firm Kolman Boye Architects. Terence Conran’s and Sean Sutcliffe’s carpentry workshop Benchmark, the American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC) and the Milanese bistro and store T’a Milano