What does it take to design artistic mass-market goods? Producibility.
For his designs of household appliances and kitchen gadgets, Italian Pino Spagnolo looked beyond aesthetic and emotional factors to the cost of materials, which affects the final price of the item.
From the late 1980s, Spagnolo's design studio specialised in transposing day-to-day dreariness into the world of art. He did this not only with kitchenware—coffee pots, corkscrews, cutlery, vases, and bar sets—but also in transportation (motorcycles, trains, yachts) and interior architecture.
Producibility was key to the Turin-based design studio's success: understanding the production technologies of the company commissioning a design. To bring art into day-to-day household work, a manufacturer must be able to profitably make and sell an object at the right price.
V&A has 40 Spagnolo objects: https://collections.vam.ac.uk/context/organisation/A16695/pino-spagnolo-design-snc
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Dear cooking enthusiasts,
What is this utensil & what is it for?
Sincerely,
A curious human
These ancient tongs have been missing their clip for as long as we’ve had them. I finally got sick of them being open in the drawer and made a new clip during my lunch break out of fencing wire. Cold forged, since it’s light material and zinc coated.
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