In anticipation of the various gatherings that occur around this time of year, we’ve pulled together five of our favorite cookbooks from recent months. Each day this week, CH will feature a different cookbook and a recipe, the sum of which will make up a complete holiday meal. Today’s…
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Translucent polycarbonate sheets screen off the kitchen and office of this baking school in Seoul (+ slideshow).
Una’s Kitchen is a baking studio in Chungdamdong, Seoul, that offers classes taught by the owner and chef, Una.
South Korean interior designers Nordic Bros. Design Community used double layers of polycarbonate fixed to thin black frames to screen off the kitchen and office while allowing light to penetrate the room.
The angular table stretching across the teaching area is over four metres long and only one centimetre thick, and has a shiny gold tabletop.
Above the table are hanging pendant lamps made from black top hats.
Earlier this year we featured a high-tech cooking workshop in Spain for a Michelin-starred chef and a culinary centre in San Sebastián with metallic gold facades.
Polycarbonate walls have also appeared in a number of projects we’ve featured lately, including a house in Japan with an upper storey made of polycarbonate sheds and an elevated extension to an indoor running track at a gym in the Czech Republic.
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Photographs are by Nordic Bros. Design Community
Here’s some more information from the architects:
Baking studio Una’s Kitchen is located in Chungdamdong, Seoul, as a contemporary space based on black and white. The owner/chef planned the space to share tasty food with beloved people and the space is full of the client’s emotion entirely.
The 70 sq m space is not only divided into kitchen, office and studio but also connected by the transparent Double-Wall Polycarbonate. The boomerang-formed studio table(to a thickness of a centimetre, 4.2 metres long in length) located in centre of studio is based on black and white with the classic colour, gold.
Una’s Kitchen, based on black, white and gold, shows canvas and object including the intention of owner/chef, majoring in sculpture from art school in Hongik University and the space designer.
Location: 62-3 3F Nao Bldg.,Cheongdam-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul, South Korea
Client: Una’s Kitchen
Architect: Nordic Bros. Design Community | Shin Yong-Hwan
Use: Baking Studio
Design Period: 2012. 9. 28 – 10. 13
Construction period: 2012. 11.17 – 26
Size: 70 sq m
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Oslo designers Andersson & Voll paired a bright yellow moka pot with a cooking hob sculpted from a slab of marble for an exhibition of Norwegian design at the Design Tide Tokyo trade fair this weekend.
The Good Morning moka pot updates the classic tiered coffee maker with reference to traditional Japanese teapots, designer Espen Voll of Andersson & Voll explained to Dezeen.
“Water and ground coffee beans rise from the basic solid of the cylinder and transform into coffee in the more carefully shaped top part. The materiality is refined in a similar way, going from crude aluminum to enamel and polished wood,” he said.
The Tuamotu cooking hob is set in a solid marble base “to emphasise the sculptural qualities of the object,” the designers said.
The objects were shown at Design Tide Tokyo from 31 October to 4 November as part of Food Work, a collection of objects for cooking and eating produced by eight Norwegian designers.
Other unusual coffee makers we’ve featured include an espresso machine made out of concrete and a kettle that uses a light bulb to heat water.
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Here’s some more information from the designers:
Food Work – 8 Norwegian designers on objects of culinary experience.
FoodWork is an independent project initiated by 8 Norwegian designers to be shown at Tokyo Design Tide 2012.
As the title indicates, the topic of the project is food: storage, preparation, presentation, and eating. These objects spring out of simple and ordinary, yet essential and vital, actions that tie people together across cultural differences. The objects are designed for everyday situations in Norway – they are Norwegian. However, we have been inspired by Japanese culture – or rather, by our particular understanding of Japanese culture. In other words: we have attempted to make Norwegian objects that could also be relevant to Japanese living. Our goal is to draw inspiration and knowledge from how our work is experienced in Tokyo.
Tuamotu cooking top
Tuamotu cooking top. The small gas top is your atoll of gastronomic cooking pleasures. The solid marble base and cast iron details are elements of a rustic and contemporary attitude. These are classic and basic materials adjusted to a personalised and compact way of living. Everyday luxury with high quality materials and a timeless expression.
Good Morning coffee pot
A morning without coffee is like sleep. A good morning is fuelling up with your own, home-brewed espresso. This is our dream pot: a hybrid of the classic Italian pots, traditional Japanese handicraft, and Norwegian cravings for extra strong coffee. The pot is made in aluminium, with a walnut handle. The way the pot is divided tells the story of the transition from the crude to the refined – from beans and water to pure pleasure.
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The VIA modular cooking concept aims to fulfill a variety of cooking needs by offering a range of easy-to-use cooking methods in a super-compact unit that will fit on any kitchen countertop. The multifunctional design features interchangeable grilling, griddle, and induction cooking modules that receive an instant electrical charge when in place and can be used, quickly cleaned and easily stored within the base of the unit. It’s a great solution for small apartments where large appliances would take up valuable space!
Designer: Buse Üstün
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Stackerware aims to replace ordinary food storage containers with an easy to use, mountable, stackable, compact system of multi-size units that won’t clutter your kitchen. The unique mount can be installed quickly and easily by use of 3M command adhesive strips that save your walls and cabinet doors but strong enough to hold the lightweight containers. No more flimsy tupperware, lost lids or lonely bowls! Check out the vid after the jump to see how it works.
Designer: Stephen Greenberg
Stackerware Kickstarter Pre-launch from Stephen Greenberg on Vimeo.
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The Kitchen Tweezers (obvious inspiration) are a modern reinterpretation of kitchen tongs that solve the main problem with the former design’s lack of spring, making them much more efficient and easy to use (not to mention way better looking!). The minimal, seamless design can be cut from a variety of materials that have tensile strength. I’m digging the raw solid wood and carbon styles!
Designer: CARRASCOBARCELÓ design studio
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Bloom isn’t at all what you might expect a kitchen appliance to look like, but don’t be deceived by its soft, floral aesthetic. The multifunctional design chops, heats & even cleans up after itself! The “petals” are made of strong, heat resistant, non-stick material that spin to stir or chop food that’s being heated by the base. When the cooking’s finished, just activate the steam cleaning nozzle located in the center of the flower to remove stubborn stuck-on food particles!
Designer: Aakanksha Rajhans
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Johan Bülow gets to the sweet root of licorice
In 2007, Johan Bülow launched Lakrids, intent on making the world fall in love with licorice. Though it’s a much-loved Danish ingredient, licorice has always had a polarizing reputation abroad and Bülow was well aware. Wisely, he steered his efforts away from traditional candy applications and focused instead on…
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Mix is a smart appliance that comes loaded with a whole lot of recipes. Essentially the database makes it smart enough to calculate just how much spice and seasoning will your sauce need. According to your recipe and portions, the device dispenses either a powder encased in a ball or a liquid sauce. Simply use the dispensed portion and cook with confidence, knowing that you are cooking a professional meal!
Designer: Lishuai Dong
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A beautifully illustrated guide to living off the land based on Rohan Anderson’s blog
Aggravated by the unsustainable food industry in his native Australia (and everywhere else for that matter), Rohan Anderson took it upon himself to change things in his own life. Anderson now lives entirely off the land with his family in the rural town of Ballarat, documenting their DIY adventures…
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