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Czech designer Martin Zampach has produced a range of hexagonal bowls that are each made from three interlocking wooden leaves.

Martin Zampach constructed the Poly Bowl using pieces of cork, coated with ash, maple and alder wood veneers to create different colours and textures.

Curved edges allow the pieces to slot together, forming the hexagonal shape.

“The flexible building materials allow for extreme shaping of the segments and when all parts are locked to form the bowl the structure gets its strength,” Zampach explained.

The designer also says that the pieces fit together in different arrangements, “to form illusional 2D and 3D ornaments”.

Marcus Zampach’s previous projects include a collection of handblown glassware with bottle tops that can be used as shot glasses.

Other bowls we’ve featured on Dezeen include some that are so thin they quiver in the wind, a collection made from shredded money and a fruit bowl with concentric circles milled from a slice of oak.

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Food designers Bompas & Parr have come up with a musical spoon that you listen to through your mouth and a set of handmade bowls to match five new flavours of Heinz baked beans.

For the Heinz Beanz Flavour Experience, design duo Bompas & Parr matched five flavours of baked beans with a handmade bowl and a spoon with a tiny MP3 player inside it. The music is inaudible until the diner places the spoon in their mouth and gently bites down, causing sound vibrations to travel through the jawbone to the ear.

For the Cheddar cheese variety, they created a yellow wax bowl that looks like a wheel of cheese, and loaded the spoon with a melody inspired by Elgar and played with a cheese wire.

The garlic and herb flavoured beans have a bowl shaped like a bulb of garlic and a soundtrack made from the sound of rustling garlic skins and tin cans knocking against each other.

The fiery chilli beans have a sharp and spiky bowl made of stainless steel and wood, with a soundtrack that uses high frequency noises to reflect the searing heat of a chilli.

For the barbecue flavoured beans the designers charred the outer surface of a limewood bowl to give it a smoky smell and paired it with blues music and the sound of sizzling.

Finally the curry flavoured beans come with a bowl inspired by tall piles of spices and a percussive bhangra soundtrack composed from the sounds of tin cans filled with different spices and seeds.

The five Heinz Beanz Flavour Experiences will be available in limited numbers from department store Fortnum & Mason in London.

Sam Bompas and Harry Parr (above) met as schoolboys and founded their studio in 2007 after graduating from University College London and The Bartlett school of architecture respectively. In 2008 the duo organised a competition to make architecture from jelly, with entries including a miniature Madrid-Barajas Airport by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners.

Other unusual food we’ve featured includes an edible desk lamp and an ice cream cake shaped like the moon – see all food on Dezeen.

Here’s more information from Heinz:

Have you ever wondered why fish and chips never taste as good as the time you ate them by the seaside out of paper? The reason for this is that our taste buds are intrinsically linked to our other senses – it’s not just about what we taste, but also what we see and touch. Our surroundings, shape, texture and even sound, can all affect our experience and enjoyment of food.

With this in mind, the nation’s favourite beans brand, Heinz, has teamed up with renowned food architects Bompas & Parr. Celebrating the launch of new Heinz Flavoured Beanz, the gastronomic duo have designed the ultimate flavour experience.

The Heinz Beanz Flavour Experience

Combining contemporary design with the brain power of top boffins, the Heinz Beanz Flavour Experience includes a handcrafted bowl and a mind-blowing magical, musical spoon, displayed in an exclusive case. Created to tap into all five senses the ‘Flavour Experiences’ marry sound, taste, touch, sight and smell, to provide the ideal sensory environment in which each dish should be eaten.

By examining the key flavours in each of the five varieties of Heinz Flavoured Beanz, Bompas & Parr have created five unique Flavour Experiences, each inspired by the look, feel and taste of the different beans. Ensuring we can experience beans like never before, these include:

» Heinz Beanz Curry Flavour Experience
» Heinz Beanz Fiery Chilli Flavour Experience
» Heinz Beanz Barbecue Flavour Experience
» Heinz Beanz Cheddar Cheese Flavour Experience
» Heinz Beanz Garlic & Herbs Flavour Experience

Bringing magic to mealtimes

Unlike normal spoons MP3 players have been fitted inside the spoons that play soundtracks specially composed to enhance the key flavours of each of the Heinz Flavoured Beanz varieties even further. Inaudible until placed in the mouth, these unique themes can be heard when gently biting on the spoon. To enhance the Heinz Beanz Curry Flavour Experience, sounds of typical Punjabi Bhangra have been composed. Those enjoying the taste of Heinz Beanz Fiery Chilli will have their dining experience enriched with the sounds of up-tempo Latin samba, whilst the Heinz Beanz Barbecue Flavour Experience draws a cultural reference to the Deep South, playing gentle blues accompanied by soft sizzling sounds.

The textures and colours of the bowls have been designed and handcrafted to further signify flavour associations. The Heinz Beanz Cheddar Cheese Flavour Experience includes a circular bowl made of cast yellow wax, based on the form, texture and colour of a traditional round of cheese, whilst the Heinz Beanz Garlic & Herbs Flavour Experience bowl draws on the organic shape of a garlic bulb, made from 96 layers of 750 micron thick card, giving it a soft, natural appearance.

Honouring the store that first stocked Heinz Beanz in 1886, the five Heinz Beanz Flavour Experiences are available exclusively from iconic London retailer, Fortnum & Mason. A limited number have been produced to trial amongst consumers and will be available from 25th March for £57 RRP.

Creating a new way of enjoying food

Sam Bompas, of Bompas & Parr, comments: “Harry Parr has synesthesia[1] and is using this alongside his architectural training to project himself (intellectually if not physically) into the Heinz Beanz Flavour Experience. The bowls and spoons give the diner a total sensory experience fully exploring the taste, haptic[2] and sonic aspects of Heinz Beanz. The project is geared to get people to look again at what is on the end of their spoons. As they eat their Beanz they can wonder at the world of flavours that contributes to everyday culinary sensation. Ultimately the project is designed to showcase the various flavours of Heinz Flavoured Beanz and touch people’s most sensitive organs…their bellies.”

Katherine Broadley, Heinz, comments: “Quick, convenient and delicious, Heinz Beanz has long been a popular speedy serve for shoppers across the country. However with the nation’s tastes evolving and becoming more sophisticated, Heinz Flavoured Beanz have been introduced to offer a new taste experience, whilst remaining true to the flavours of the beans we know and love.

“Through our latest work with food architects Bompas & Parr, we hope to continue to elevate Heinz Beanz’s iconic status, offering beans lovers a new and exciting way in which to experience their favourite flavours. Harnessing the power of new technological developments we have created the Heinz Beanz Flavour Experience to challenge perceptions of how we eat and change the way in which we consume food.”

The Nation’s ‘Flavourite Beanz’

The Heinz Flavoured Beanz range includes Heinz Beanz Cheddar Cheese, Heinz Beanz Curry, Heinz Beanz Fiery Chilli, Heinz Beanz Garlic & Herbs and Heinz Beanz Barbecue. All varieties are naturally high in fibre, a natural source of protein and naturally low in fat. And with a portion of each variety delivering one of your five-a-day, beans lovers can be sure to receive a daily portion of goodness as well as a hit of flavour that packs a punch.

Heinz Flavoured Beanz are available now in 390g cans from leading supermarkets, RRP 84p.

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Interieur 2012: objects that seem like half-finished sketches of candle holders, vases, bowls and bottles won British designer Maya Selway second prize in the Object category of the Interieur Design Awards at the Interieur design biennale in Kortrijk, Belgium, last week (+ slideshow).

Each object in the Kishu collection is carefully weighted at its base to support its lopsided structure. “I worked for a long time to get the balance just right,” Selway told Dezeen.

The delicate pieces are made from oxidised copper, and the vase also has a shallow silver dish for holding water.

The bottles and bowls are purely decorative, but the candle holder and the vase can be used as shown.

Selway trained as a silversmith and jeweller at Camberwell College of Arts in London and Bishopsland near Reading, and has also worked making props and building sets for theatre and film.

Other unusual candle holders we’ve featured on Dezeen include one with a sandpaper base for striking matches and a series of stackable candle holders made from copper, steel and lumps of concrete.

At Interieur 2012 we also reported on a concept car by Ross Lovegrove that invites a primitive emotional response and a table, lamp and bookshelf made from concrete by Matali Crasset – see all our stories about Interieur 2012.

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Communist-era woodturning from a master Czech craftsman

by Adam Štěch

American artists like J. B. Blunk, Wendell Castle and Jack Rogers Hopkins are established heavyweights in the world of design and certainly represent the “haute couture” style of woodworking, but Czech master craftsman and turner Antonín Hepnar continues to work in relative anonymity behind the former Iron Curtain from his studio in the small village of Čakovičky near Prague.

Working in the art of woodturning since the 1950s, Hepnar is a unique creative mind in a local design scene traditionally associated with glass and porcelain. According to the artist and designer, wood is the most important material in our lives. “Man is born into the wooden cradle, sits on the wooden chair his whole life, and dies into the wooden coffin,” says Hepnar.

Thanks to his philosophy and love for wood, Hepnar has created various turned objects throughout his career. His vases, bowls, candlesticks and lamps, as well as large sculptural objects or realizations for architecture and interiors have been produced exclusively on the spinning axis of the lathe, a primitive and genial machine with seemingly never-ending possibilities.

Hepnar was a very productive artist during the former Communist era through the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s, making functional and decorative home accessories for the only Czech design gallery at the time—Dílo. Inspired by Baroque, modernism and folk art, his objects represented traditional craft with a modern edge. He sold well—and very quickly—due to the lack of quality aesthetic objects available at the time.

After a series of exhibitions devoted to Hepnar in Prague, his work has become well-known and now, the master craftsman is at work once again. Next to his own re-issued editions of popular products, such as his lovely 1950s Amanita lamp, or the striking abstract owl decorative sculpture from 1983, he continues to discover new possibilities in the world of woodmaking. His latest “Bosáž” series of bowls made of very thin turned wood and deformed by steam is a handcrafted gem.

Antonín Hepnar sells his work in the Prague-based DOX by Qubus concept store.

Images courtesy of Jaroslav Moravec, Matěj Činčera, Antonín Hepnar archive and the Phillips de Pury Archive.

Dezeen Space: today Canadian designer Philippe Malouin brings his bowls made of waxed concrete to our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space.

The 1:4 bowls were one of eleven products produced by different designers in response to photographs of a fictional character named Vera, which Dezeen featured in a story earlier this week.

Called Vera, Chapter One, the project was curated by Kirsty Minns and Érika Muller (KM and ÉM) and was presented in a west London basement during the London Design Festival.

Precise measurements were necessary to produce each bowl’s concrete components, similar to the regular cake-baking that Vera’s mother is imagined to have done.

Each day, for 30 days, a different designer will use a one metre by one metre space to exhibit their work at Dezeen Space. See the full lineup for Dezeen Platform here and see all our stories about the work on show here.

See more about Dezeen Space here and watch interviews with exhibitors on Dezeen Screen.

Dezeen Space
17 September – 16 October
Monday-Saturday 11am-7pm
Sunday 11am-5pm

54 Rivington Street,
London EC2A 3QN

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Pia Wüstenberg at Dezeen Platform	Denis Guidone at Dezeen Platform	Thomas Feichtner at Dezeen Platform