Hasta La Ideas

Digsmed was the name of a tableware manufacturer from Denmark, and lately I’ve stumbled across a rash of their items manufactured in the 1960s. Sold by secondhanders on Etsy, eBay and elsewhere online, Digsmed seems to have gotten a couple of basic things very right–a rotating wooden circle attached to an unseen base, and a glassblowing operation–and adapted those things into a beautiful line of Lazy Susans and spice racks made from teak.

Here’s what must have been their flagship product, an 18-jar number that was for sale on Etsy:

As you can see, the wooden caps to the jars are permanently affixed to their spokes. You rotate the jar you want to the six o’clock position, then unscrew it, leaving the cap where it is.

I like that design because it means you’ll never misplace the cap.

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