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pHere’s maybe the last thing I expected to find being launched at the Home and Housewares Show: a kettle designed by a href=”http://www.sottsass.it/”Ettore Sottsass/a for a href=”http://www.bodum.com/”Bodum/a in 1986, during the a href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis_Group”Memphis/a period. Joslash;rgen Bodummdash;the co-owner of Bodum and son of company founder Peter Bodummdash;worked with Sottsass Associates on the design, and shows it off for us below, pointing out a few distinctly Memphis moments, and the manufacturing problem that kept this off the shelves until now./p

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pAccording to Joslash;rgen, the kettle had been designed as part of a line of Bodum electrics, but was not put into production with the rest because of an issue with the stainless steel spoutmdash;the plastic expands faster than the metal, creating cracking and breakage. Now, in 2010, they are finally able to circumvent the problem (how, I don’t know, Joslash;rgen ony revealed that they “found a factory that could do it”) and the kettle is being launched alongside e-Bodum, their newest line of electric appliances, expanded to non-coffee and tea items./p

pThis appliance line is a first in Bodum’s recent history, but as mentioned above, they’ve been in Bodum’s past before. Similarly, color: though the company introduced color at last year’s Home and Housewares Show, they also used color back in the 1960s. On this, Joslash;rgen pointed out, “Colors come and go. There are children of stainless steel, then children of color.”/p

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