An iPad stand that encourage you to cook!

So simple, so elegant, so cool…With the advent of the iPad, it seems everyone is Googling what’s for dinner.

Enter Andrea Ponti, a young Italian designer based in Japan, whose Bosco cutting board is an ingenious low-tech addition to the hi-tech kitchen.The Ginkgo wooden plank comes in two parts: a base and a cutting board. The base is notched to hold your iPad or other tablet device. That opens up your cooking process to a whole new world. Forget running to your laptop to check out the next step in your selected Epicurious recipes. With your iPad front and center, you not only have recipes at hand, but you can also control the Spotify musical accompaniment, message your foodie friends to find out what goes into a bouquet garni, and post a picture of the finished product to Facebook. And if you hate dining alone, move the base and iPad to the dining room and Skype with a dinner date. When you’re done cooking, the cutting board slips into the same notch that propped up the iPad.

 

A Table Designed To Teach Kids To Grow Their Own Food

The struggle to get otherwise curious kids to eat vegetables is an age-old complaint. A recent trend has been to sneak veggies into other foods (remember Jessica Seinfeld’s controversy-laden cookbook?). But as disdainful as they can be about leafy greens, kids can be jazzed about projects, which is why a new table that allows kids to grow their own food — and (gasp!) even help out in the kitchen — holds promise.

Designed by Ruth Vatcher, a recent college grad, Eat Play Grow features an herb sprouting tray, a chopping board for food preparation, a ceramic watering pot, and felt pockets for storing tools and seeds. The attractive, solid-oak table will blend into most decors, and even if it doesn’t result in dramatically healthier eating habits, it will give kids a greater appreciation where food comes from — before it hits the grocery store shelves.

Vaisselier system by Matiere A

French design collective Matière A have designed a kitchen storage system using a tree branch and some timber batons.Studio Matière A consists of designers Amaury Poudray, Marie Declerck and Rémi Bouhaniche. Their website will be launched next week at http://www.studiomatierea.com.
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