Flesh Knife echoes the idea of understanding tools and utensils as extensions of our bodies; A knife growing directly from your hand. The resulting project is a thermoplastic flesh-like handle that can be heated up to take the unique grip of its owner. A personalised, made to size handle that adapts, perfectly, to the hand of its owner, only… Until somebody else heats it up again and apropiates it by imprinting her hand into it. Over and over again challenging the concepts of customisation and ownership.
The purpose of the initiative is to raise money for el llindar foundation, who support young people that have found themselves outside the mainstream education system, by teaching them how to become cooks and front of house professionals in the hospitality industry.
Photos by Coke Bartrina
The Table Knife Project brings together the Barcelona based cutlery company Florentine Kitchen Knives and 28 local design studios and collaborators to create 56 extraordinary table knives - personal interventions to an existing model designed by the cutlery firm. Curated by the FKK team and Barcelona based designer Berta Julià Sala, the project is supported by the branding and visual design of Gymnasium and the images of local photographer Coke Bartrina.
Tests and prototypes.
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