The Sake Bomb. A Modern Drinking Vessel Inspired By The Puffer Fish

What better eay to get bombed on sake than with the hand crafted ceramic microwaveable Sake Bomb, a modern sputnick looking vessel with four incoporated sake cups that can hold hot or cold sake.



The Sake Bomb is hand crafted in Los Angeles. It is available in a variety of vivid colors with a sealed matt ceramic finish. To ensure the complexity and geometric nature of the sake bomb remained true, the manufacturing process combines both high-tech modern technologies with traditional handcrafted techniques. The vessels were initially design in 3D CAD software and printed using a 3D FDM printer. From these objects plaster molds were taken and traditional slip-casting procedures are employed to create the ceramic versions for kiln firing.



This whimsical pouring vessel is a comical take on the western slang “Sake Bomb”. The inspiration is a juxtaposition of the Fugu Fish (Blowfish or Puffer Fish), the most opulent of sashimi cuts and a WW II sea mine. The small drinking cups perch neatly on the spines making it a compact entertaining tool.


above: the Fugu, also known as the Puffer Fish or Blowfish served as the design inspiration

The Sake Bomb was designed by Alexander Purcell founder of APRRO an interdisciplinary design studio based in Los Angeles.



Available in four colors:



Because the Sake Bomb is ceramic it keeps both your hot sake hot and your cold sake cold. To heat sake you may place Sake Bomb in microwave for a minute. Sake Bomb holds 8 FL OZ (235 ml)

$98.00 USD Buy it here.

Soop Dishes Up Some Fun Tableware

Soop is a multi-disciplinary design company, designing products for the home and commercial environment, from tableware to small items of furniture. Some of the following plates are presently in production and available at various design stores or directly from Soop. Others are looking for production and distribution. All of them are imaginative and fun.

Plate is for Pea (earthenware with pea trick booklet, presently in production):



Above: A plate that actually encourages you to play with your food. Attempt tricks from the accompanying booklet and score as many points by flicking, rolling or even spitting peas into the numbered dimples.

Pretty Nasty (bone china, presently in production):






Above: A series of decorative plates with pretty floral patterns that, on closer inspection, are made up of nasty houseflies, beetles, slugs and snails.

Ready Meals (earthenware, in production):



Above: Ready Meals are seven 10" dinner plate designs, one for everyday of the week, with mix and match recipes (e.g. chips, beans and sausages, beans on toast etc). All you need to do is prepare, cook and place your food on the right outline to serve up a diner's delight.

Crumbs (biscuit tea plates made of bone china, presently in production):




A Diner's Delight (earthenware, seeking production):


Diner’s Delights are six plates with classic American recipes to try, (All American breakfast, hamburger and fries, T bone steak and fries, macaroni and cheese, Thanksgiving dinner and waffles and ice cream).


Contact info:
44 (0) 20 8995 7105
for any sales enquiries

Funky Find Of The Week: Lovegrove & Repucci's New York Delft Dinnerware

Nicholas Lovegrove and Demian Repucci have come up with this fun and funky twist on traditional delft dinnerware.

In the classic blue and white, gritty new york imagery and graffiti pepper the porcelain plates, making a wonderfully modern version of classic Delft porcelain.


Above: detail

New York Delft Tableware

The classic tradition of Dutch Delft craftsmanship hits the streets of New York City. Presenting the ‘New York Delft’ Porcelain dinnerware collection. Each place setting is made of fine porcelain and has five pieces; a dinner plate, side plate, soup bowl, cup and saucer. Sold as a set. Or, cups and saucer sets at lovegrove repucci.com

Buy them here.

10 Fabulous New Finds For The Home

Below are 10 fabulous new finds for your home. From rugs to lamps to placemats, just click on the links for more info or to purchase.

Pantone Stuff! Plus... Dinnerware on Sale Now

Please note, there's a newer post on this blog with the largest collection of Pantone and Pantone-inspired products available globally, see it here.

I get so many compliments on this fun Pantone Color porcelain dinnerware collection that I thought I'd share the fact that it's 30% off right now at Fishes Eddy (one of only two places that carry it!)





What is Pantone®?
PANTONE® the color authority, Richard Herbert President, Pantone Inc.

Whatever your color may be, recent innovations have made reproducing that color accurately, in any medium, anywhere in the world, an affordable reality. I am proud to be able to offer our customers the most advanced, efficient and complete color solutions available today. Our newest color devices offer a practical means of streamlining the color workflow around the world. PANTONE Color Cue™2 will make your color inspiration easier. The PANTONE digital color devices will make your color vision accurate. Rely on Pantone to make accurate color easily accessible and affordable.

From print and digital color reproduction to product development for fashion and interiors, Pantone continues to offer total color solutions for all industries. Because of our forty years of experience, proven color expertise and technical know–how, Pantone has earned the reputation as the world’s color authority.

Best known for their formula guides, Pantone has a really cool website that carries lots of other unexpected goodies, templates, insights, articles and information.


Sit down and relax...
on Pantone Flight Stools!

Now you can have the same magnificent stools that were launched at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair... and will make appearances in several museums all over the world! The amazing British design team, Barber Osgerby, pays tribute to Pantone by producing a multi-dimensional chip!

These birch stools from Isokon Plus are available in a range of colors from the warmer end of the spectrum--Yellow, Pink, Red and Orange. Lawrence Herbert, founder and innovator of the PANTONE MATCHING SYSTEM® will sign 20 of this limited edition... 50 total.



Take a look at the passport holders, zip wallets, tote bags, notebooks and other things made by Pantone® below:




Look at these cute felt bags:





For those of you not familiar with the PANTONE system (also known as PMS), check out their site.

Do You Know About Pantone Universe?



To see their "cool" site, go here.

And they do Colorstrology:


Check it out

Click here to link to their main site.

Please note, there's a newer post on this blog with the largest collection of Pantone and Pantone inspired products available globally, see it here.

the Dish on Dishes

As June gets closer, engaged couples are preparing their wedding registries and people everywhere start looking at dishes a little differently.

Perhaps I can help. Below are 54 different dishes that are all available for purchase. Ranging greatly in price and style, you just have to click on the image below to get more information and to buy them.

Some are limited editions, some are melamine, most are beautiful.

Happy clicking!

Just click on image above for more information and the place of purchase.

Design You Could Just Eat Up: New Plasticware For Spring

Spring has sprung and that means it time for picnics and outdoor entertaining!

Good design has crept into the plasticware market and here are just a few fabulous finds.

Clockwise from upper left: Pandora Designs ornate plasticware, available in clear as well as other colors, Heavy Stainless-steel looking plasticware, Philipe Starck's fabulous new LUX dinnerware, and The Snap-a-Party by Fred.

Click on the item to be taken directly to the place of purchase.

Dish For All You Art Directors Out There

Thought those of you familiar with PMS (and no, I'm not talking about Aunt Flo, I'm talking the Pantone Matching System),

The hard-to-find Pantone Dinnerwear collection is on sale at 50% off right now at Fishs Eddy in NY and online (I've got the link right here for you, folks.. just click on Fishes Eddy.

Dinner plates, salad plates, bowls, saucers and mugs all with actual pantone colors and numbers on them.

This is no crappy melamine, we're talking porcelain. Microwave and dishwasher safe.

Now, setting the table is more like doing a layout.