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Japanese designers Nendo have created these spoons with a bird profile on the branched handle, designed to resemble a forest when grouped together.

100,000 of the products, called Forest Spoon, will be given away as lottery prizes to customers of Japanese curry restaurant chain Coco Ichibanya.

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Photographs are by Masayuki Hayashi.

The information that follows is from Nendo:

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Our design for the Japan-wide curry chain restaurant Coco Ichibanya’s annual ‘Grandmother Curry’ campaign, in which 100,000 lucky customers win curry spoons through a lottery.

Spoons are a tool for eating, and our world is full of spoons designed for that function. In contrast, we wanted to make a spoon that would be fun to look at when it wasn’t in use. As part of this, we know that spoons are used on their own, but wanted to create a spoon design that would have a new charm when the spoons were brought together.

When our spoon is lying on its own on a kitchen shelf, it looks like a single tree. But when you assemble a number of spoons, our design creates a ‘landscape’ in the home.

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