Japanese designers Nendo have created chocolate pencils for Tokyo patissier Tsujiguchi Hironobu.
The pencils come with a sharpener so chocolate shavings can be grated on top of pastries and desserts.
Here’s a bit of text from Nendo:
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Chocolate-pencils is a collaboration with patissier Tsujiguchi Hironobu, the mastermind behind popular dessert shops like Mont St. Claire and Le Chocolat de H. Tsujiguchi created a new dessert based on his impression of Nendo after conversations with us, and we designed new tableware for them.
We wanted our plates to show off the beauty of meals and desserts like a painting on a canvas. Based on this idea, our “chocolate pencils” come in a number of cocoa blends that vary in intensity, and chocophiles can use the special “pencil sharpener” that comes with our plate to grate chocolate onto their dessert.
Pencil filings are usually the unwanted remains of sharpening a pencil but in this case they’re the star!
Photographs by H-STYLE/FG-MUSASHI
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Posted by Rose Etherington
luvly touched
April 4th, 2008 at 1:50 pmfor all of the people out there who enjoy chewing on the end of their pencil, but hate that rubber eraser aftertaste…
April 4th, 2008 at 2:17 pmSorry but I don’t see the “creative” link between sharpening pencils and a chocolate dessert degustation ?
The gesture seems too laborious to me and conjures up images of “office life” paper clips, photocopies etc.
Maybe Crayons would have been a more fun starting point : )
April 4th, 2008 at 2:50 pmOutstanding idea! Congratulations Nendo.
April 4th, 2008 at 3:09 pmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
April 4th, 2008 at 3:23 pmsweet and sharp at the same time. Just give me the 256 color tones in a box set and we are set to go.
April 5th, 2008 at 12:21 amSorry, it conjures up images of lead pencils and I’m not sure I can stomach this. And like what greg said, the ‘link’ is a little far-fetched. Nevertheless, Nendo still stands as one of the most innovative designers at the moment.
April 5th, 2008 at 4:05 amFast design ?… did you see the sketches on nendo site?
April 5th, 2008 at 10:08 amstarck works like this=> see wood cake for Lenotre…1 mn 1 idea…ok other client?
I love it !!!
Jo Yana
April 6th, 2008 at 6:26 amhttp://deco-design.biz
Smart & irresistible!
April 6th, 2008 at 12:46 pmSimply Brilliant! I probably just need 3. Dark, milk and white chocolate. But what’s stopping me from chewing those yummy pencils?? MMMM
April 6th, 2008 at 2:36 pmJo Yana are you french? Do you know some chocolate design in Paris?
April 6th, 2008 at 6:41 pmfantastic
April 7th, 2008 at 1:00 pmit’s a process - transferred and applied to another material, in this case food.
and it’s a link between material processes for two different purposes… of chocolate shavings as decoration which has been done for years and of creating those shavings by sharpening a stick/otherwise recognised as a pencil.
Clever stuff, simple reference. nicely done.
April 7th, 2008 at 2:27 pmyum
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Jo Yana
April 8th, 2008 at 4:39 pmDéco-Design
I want one! It looks brilliant, cool stuff.
April 13th, 2008 at 4:42 pmwhen I heard chocolate pencils I thought that they’re gonna be half real half chocolate, than it will be helpful in learning: I always eat pencils while learning so chocolate would be energyzing and I wouldn’t eat rubber…but anyway mniam mniam
April 14th, 2008 at 6:45 pmChocolate cigarettes, chocolate crayons, and now chocolate pencils. Such a cool idea although in practice I’m not sure how functional. For any one who’s ever shaved chocolate before you’d know how much of chore it is to do so. Thus a very clever design for participating chocolate enthusiasts. You’d need cold hands when handling them though otherwise ‘hello chocolate-pencil-fondue’ … bit like a leaking pen really! Hmm perhaps half the fun?
April 15th, 2008 at 7:01 am