Yanagi Sōri Server Fork

Name: YANAGI Sori Server Fork
SKU: 2030660005815
Price: 25.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

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£25.00 per item

A stainless steel server fork meticulously designed by renowned designer Yanagi Sōri produced in Tsubame City, Niigata Prefecture.

This serving fork is one part of the kitchen utensil series designed by Yanagi Sōri, one of Japan’s most revered product designers of the post-war era. Commissioned by the Satō Shōji corporation, the series won the Good Design Award in 1998. The Yanagi Sōri Stainless Server Fork is the ideal utensil for serving dishes when paired with a Yanagi Sōri Stainless Server Spoon. This series of kitchenware is produced by Nihon Yōshokki in Tsubame City, Niigata Prefecture, an area recognized for its high level of metal craftspersonship.

‘Thinking with ones hands’ was Yanagi Sōri’s distinctive design approach, and he was known for his extensive hand-crafted model-making process. Numerous physical models were developed, starting with two-dimensional paper models cut from primary sketches. These were then developed into three-dimensional models crafted from polystyrene foam, in order for every curve of the shape to be inspected. Following this, models would be carved out of wood to confirm the weight and balance of the cutlery in the hand, and finally they were produced in metal to fine tune any remaining elements of the design. The result is a set of simple cutlery characterized by timelessness and functionality in its meticulously sculpted and perfected form.

Dishwasher safe

Size : L25cm

Kansai

The Kansai region includes the second-most populated metropolitan area in Japan with its largest city Osaka. Kyoto and Nara, two of Japan’s former capital cities, are home to important temples and shrines and strongholds of intangible cultural heritage, such as the Kyoto textile weaving skills of Nishijin.