These chocolate pencils are the result of a collaboration between Japanese architect and designer Oki Sato and patissier Tsujiguchi Hironobu. The last one is the man behind Tokyo’s boutique dessert shops Mont St. Claire and Le Chocolat de H. Subtle tableware effectively displays the gourmet chocolate. The “pencils” come in a number of cocoa blends that vary in intensity, and chocophiles can use the special pencil sharpener that comes with the plate to grate chocolate onto their dessert.
From the same designer come these soy sauce, salt, and pepper containers. The three containers are differentiated through a combination of sight and sound, or words as sound. Instead of relying on symbols and letters, the mouth of each container is the shape that a human mouth would make when saying the name of each product: “yu” for “shoyu”, which means “soy sauce” in Japanese, “shi” for “shio”, which means salt, and “ko” for “kosho”, which means “pepper”. The designer: “In an age when we rely increasingly on e-mail for communication, and conversation fades from the dinner table, “talking” subtly links people and things through the power of the texture and sound of spoken Japanese”.
(via Cool Hunting)
9 responses
Felicia Mar 12, 2008 at 12:57 pm
What delicious pencils
pia Mar 12, 2008 at 3:15 pm
oh yeah, it doesnt get any better than this! i love them, want them, now. i shall have to suffice with a little chocolate egg sitting here on my desk.
Danielle Mar 12, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Hi Pia, you might like this: www.sucrerestaurant.nl/. This ‘dessert only’ restaurant will be opening in Amserdam mid March. They will serve 4 or 5-course menus, not all dishes are sweet but most of them are. Worth checking out!
Deborah Mar 12, 2008 at 9:38 pm
What a brilliant and delicious idea!
Liberty Post Editor Mar 13, 2008 at 3:35 am
I can’t find pencils for my son’s homework at the best of times…oh my, if they were chocolate, we’d never have any!
ana moreno Mar 13, 2008 at 4:57 am
oh my! chocolate pencils are like a new dream coming true!
Prêt à Voyager Mar 17, 2008 at 4:21 pm
Those pencils are truly brilliant and so fun too!
Anne
jaana*maaria Mar 19, 2008 at 12:20 am
Perfectly wonderful, can’t get better!
Bhavna Mar 31, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Such a brilliant idea! Chewing on a pencil would be so much better now
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