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ニュー ウィンザー クニエダヤスエ セレクション New Windsor Yasue Kunieda Selection |
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| 製造会社・出展協力・寄贈 Manufacture |
加藤金属株式会社 Kato Kinzoku Co.,Ltd |
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| デザイナー Designer |
有限会社 セルツカンパニー 倉方雅行 Masayuki Kurakata, SELTZ Co.Ltd. |
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私は以前から、洋食器いわゆるカトラリーを探していた。デザインオリエンテッドなものは、それだけをテーブルに並べたときには、大変きれいに見えるのだが、グラスやナプキン、食事の盛られたプレートが揃うと、多くはその存在を主張しすぎる様に感じていた。そんなとき私はこのカトラリーに出会った。はじめて見たとき、過度な主張が無く、手に取ってみると指や手の腹の当たりがとても気持ちよい。さすがに口には入れなかったが、フォークの曲がりや切れ込みの深さは自然な腕運びで、口元に来る。さらに、驚いたのはセットの構成と価格だ。長めと短めのフォーク、同じくスプーンそしてナイフの5本が一人分1,800円（当時税抜）で店頭に並んでいる。私は思わず店員の方にデザイナーを尋ねてしまった。その後デザイナーの倉方雅行氏に会う機会があり、製品との出会いや感想を伝えると、大変に喜んでいた。そして、このカトラリーは、テーブルコーディネーターのクニエダヤスエさんの提唱する「お箸の感覚で洋食器を家庭に」というコンセプトで、彼女と一緒に開発したこと、価格も箸を買うくらいに抑えるという苦労をメーカーとの協力で達成できたことなど、経緯を話してくれた。日常に使えるこの製品は、箸に匹敵するほど我が家では活躍している。今の日本の「食」を思うと、これはハンバーグやコロッケを箸で食べない、「食」の国際人をデザインする道具のひとつかも知れないと、私は感じる。
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| （解説／羽原 粛郎) 1994 年 3 月 \1,800（set ５本）現在2000（set ５本）- |
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| Once I was looking for silverware. As for any design oriented objects in this field, silverware looks very beautiful on the table. But when you add glasses, napkins, and plates piled with food, then there are too many things that are too expressive. Then I came across this silverware. At first glance my impression was that there is no excessive insistence, and when you pick it up, it feels good in your fingers and hands. I don't put the fork inside my mouth, but the bending and the incisions make bringing it into your mouth with your arm a natural thing. Furthermore, I was surprised about what the set of this silverware comprised and by its price. The set comprises long and short forks, spoons, and five knives. These were lined up in the shop window, priced at that time (and excluding taxes) at 1,800 Yen per set. By chance I asked the salesman about the designer. It is Masayuki Kurakata, who I later had the opportunity to meet. He was delighted when I told him about the encounter with his work and about the impression the product had made on me. He told me details about his work, and as Yasue Kunieda, a coordinator for table setting, put it, the concept of the silverware is to "use the feeling of a chopstick for western silverware to feel at home with it". Masayuki Kurakata worked with her, and they are also trying to reduce the price so that it would be like buying chopsticks. This could be achieved by a co-operation with the manufacturer. The <New Windsor> can be used daily at home as if it were my chopstick. Thinking about current Japanese cuisine, I feel that this silverware is designed for the "food cosmopolitan", who doesn't eat hamburgers or croquettes with chopsticks. |
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(Commentary / Shukuro Hanehara)
Launch Year / 1994 |
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