table manners - minale-maeda

"Fast food has no dish. Food can carry the dish instead of eating without dish"
...?!?what?!?

a fusion of food, philosophy and fashion will have your mind afluttering - trying to understand what minale-maeda is trying to create. the dutch-based designers puts a modern twist on fine dining and what we've learned about table manners from our mother. Mario Minale and Kuniko Maeda are the masterminds behind the exploration of this concept through their unusual designs. take for example their laced covered tv dinner table named "individual dining tables" with the caption "quarter dining table for individual eating printed with lace tablecloth for manners" makes fun of the concept of "table manners". they lace up toasts, disposable paper napkins and even treats plastic cutlery as if they were silver (they even call it a "plastic silverware cutlery set" for the kicks). their design scream at little old ladies, "heck with table manners, you want table manners? we'll go full out and have fast food with lace!"




one eye-popping design that seemed a little off the whole "table manners" idea is the meat tablecloth. pieces of bread, ham and cheese were sewn together and laid on a table set up for fine dining - essentially, it's saying, eat on the sandwich, not the sandwich or...

"Fast food has no dish. Food can carry the dish instead of eating without dish"

where you can learn more about minale-maeda and "table manners": http://www.minale-maeda.com/index.htm

*interesting facts: minale-maeda is also the designer of the "106% red-blue rietveld chair" noted previously in the post "red, blue and yellow - the past and present of 'de stijl'" (May 6, 2008)


- cup of red