Thomas Feichtner launches cutlery for Jarosinski & Vaugoin at Vienna Design Week
Vienna Design Week 2014: Austrian designer Thomas Feichtner has collaborated with silverware manufacturers Jarosinski & Vaugoin to produce the company's 192nd cutlery range.
Jarosinski & Vaugoin has been producing tableware, flatware and other silver items since 1847. For its latest range, it invited Vienna-based designer Thomas Feichtner to design a collection that is based on hand-crafting techniques traditionally used to make cutlery.
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"I wanted not simply to provide a design, but also to involve the production process typically used by this manufactory, working together with them to develop something new," said Feichtner.
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Each piece in the range has a top surface that tapers from the functional end out along the handle. This creates a flat plane on top of the otherwise domed shape of the handle.
Knives finish in a blunted curved tip, while the tines of each fork have flat horizontal surfaces that slim to a sharp point.
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Feichtner described the design as employing a "combination of clear surfaces and radiuses, with a theme of two diametrically intersecting phases lending this cutlery a highly individual character".
Simply called design No. 192, the solid silver cutlery set launched this week at the Jarosinski & Vaugoin store in Vienna as part of the city's design week.
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Feichtner, who has previously designed steel cutlery for German retailer Carl Mertens, also spoke to the Dezeen Watch Store Blog during this year's design week about a watch concept he is hoping to put into production.
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"I've always wanted to design a watch, I'm absolutely fascinated with them," he told Dezeen founder Marcus Fairs.
In 2011, Feichtner launched another product at Vienna Design Week – the M3 chair, which featured a seat suspended at the centre of a cubic oak frame.
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