Collection Maryline
Ménagère de couverts
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2017 / Product Design / Free to Edition
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D'origine primaire, les couverts sont devenus au fil de l'évolution de l'homme des objets indispensables aux règles de bienséance au sein de la culture occidentale. Sorte de prolongement de la main, les doigts sont les éléments du corps ayant le plus de contact avec ces outils. Le fil conducteur de la conception s'est dès lors articulé autour du pouce, capital lors du maintien des couverts, et son emplacement central permet de relier la lame et le manche. En découle une courbe qui dessine en un tracé la forme du manche, l'emplacement du pouce, et pour le couteau, la découpe de sa lame.
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Although of elementary origin, throughout the evolution of mankind, tableware utensils have become indispensable to proper dining etiquette rules in western culture. Being some form of lengthening of the hand itself, fingers are the body parts which most frequently come in contact with these utensils. From then on, the knife being the central component of the conception, one could but notice how the thumb lay right in the centre of the knife, also being the junction point between the blade and the handle. Subsequently, the knife’s volume was designed compliantly with the thumb, driven by a curve encircling the knife. This undulated optical effect does not only serve aesthetical purposes, but also favours the fashioning of both the blade and the arch of the handle.
