I haven’t seen click-ed out food weapons like this since 1992. Read about the set of silverware that Urban Outfitters would be utterly foolish not to pick up for their Spring Collection.

Ed Vince provides “luxurious dining in contemporary consumer society”:

The etiquette set is a complete, packaged dining kit including instructions which allows the user to enjoy an à la Russe dining experience in any context, regardless of class or wealth.

It combines the semiotics of a plastic Airfix model kit with the implied luxury of an à la Russe table setting, using what is essentially wastage from the mould to structure the pieces in the correct position.

The set retains the detailing, form and visual language of the ornate silver cutlery and ceramic plate, and forces these values into the context of mass production and contemporary consumer culture through manufacture, material choice, packaging and method of use and disposal.

The design and realisation of this product is intended to comment on the loss of tradition, heritage and craftsmanship evident in the consumer culture of which we are part, and to question how and why we assign value to the different objects that surround us.

Clicky-clicky snappy. The harsh critics at [Yanko Design] would say “too much waste you terrible person – think about the children of mother earth!” I say that too, but I like clicky so much I’d still love a set for my own.

Designed by: [Ed Vince]

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