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chocolate pencils as dessert

Posted By Danielle On 12th March 2008 @ 11:27 In design, home accessories, food | 9 Comments


These [1] chocolate pencils are the result of a collaboration between Japanese architect and designer [2] Oki Sato and patissier Tsujiguchi Hironobu. The last one is the man behind Tokyo’s boutique dessert shops Mont St. Claire and [3] 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 [4] 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 [5] Cool Hunting)

9 Comments To "chocolate pencils as dessert"

#1 Comment By Felicia On 12th March 2008 @ 12:57

What delicious pencils :)

#2 Comment By pia On 12th March 2008 @ 15:15

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.

#3 Comment By Danielle On 12th March 2008 @ 15:28

Hi Pia, you might like this: [16] 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!

#4 Comment By Deborah On 12th March 2008 @ 21:38

What a brilliant and delicious idea!

#5 Comment By Liberty Post Editor On 13th March 2008 @ 03:35

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!

#6 Comment By ana moreno On 13th March 2008 @ 04:57

oh my! chocolate pencils are like a new dream coming true!

#7 Comment By Prêt à Voyager On 17th March 2008 @ 16:21

Those pencils are truly brilliant and so fun too!

Anne

#8 Comment By jaana*maaria On 19th March 2008 @ 00:20

Perfectly wonderful, can’t get better!

#9 Comment By Bhavna On 31st March 2008 @ 12:55

Such a brilliant idea! Chewing on a pencil would be so much better now :)

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