Remember when Mom scolded you for playing with the food on your plate? Not any longer. There's a growing international trend by makers, designers and artists who are taking preconceived ideas of how ...

Two years after making its debut with a collection of timeless tableware essentials, Monoware branches out into cutlery with a new range that expands on the minimalist, well-considered aesthetic. It ...

Unless you enjoy whittling twigs into chopsticks or stabbing tinned ravioli with a pen knife, forgetting the cutlery and reverting to eating with one's hands can be one step too far removed from ...

Japanese jewellery designer Maki Okamoto created these mutated pieces from recycled antique cutlery, adding extra tines or splicing bowls of spoons together with forks. The project forms part of a ...

When designer Sha Yao’s grandmother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, she saw firsthand how the disease, and other neurodegenerative ones like it, can turn even the most basic tasks into ...

Photo Caption: Air France's new tableware in Economy and Premium Economy has slots in the knives, forks and spoons that enable passengers to turn them into replica airplanes. These will turn into ...

National carrier Air France wanted to introduce a more ecologically friendly tray, crockery and cutlery for its in-flight dining. The airline asked Catalan designer Eugeni Quitllet to create a range ...

Ironically, a goldsmith was behind the cutlery service that is now the very epitome of sober elegance. In 1959, Peter Raacke wanted to create an affordable alternative to ornate silverware. "mono-a" ...

Yao left Taiwan to begin her graduate studies in industrial design in the United States. While she was not there physically with her grandmother, Yao’s commitment never wavered. “I decided to focus on ...