London Design Festival 09: Korean designers Maezm will show work including Table-Dish-Cover, a silicon tablecloth with integrated dishes, at Designersblock in London next month.
The flexible, injection-moulded silicon product is spread over a table at meal times and then removed and washed afterwards.
Designersblock takes place from 24-27 September at 100% Design, Earls Court, London.
See all our stories about London Design Festival 2009 in our special category.
Here’s some info from Maezm:
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TABLE-DISH-COVER
Spread the dish on the table. The flexible table cloth that looks just like a dish makes it possible to prepare food anywhere just by spreading it.
When the meal is over the ‘dish table cover’ is removed and washed. A sheet of a flexible ‘dish’ that is folded or crushed brings a new way of life that is not affected by space or time limitations.
meal tray type / special silicon for food / injection molding / 505 x 415 x 57 (mm)
reddot design award / design concept / “best of the best”
MACEF dining in2015 competition “shortlist entry”
August 28th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
urh?? does it also suit in my dishwasher??
August 28th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
nice idea, but will it fit in the dishwasher??
August 28th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
What happens with the leftovers, soup or sauces for example ? How do one transfers it altogether to the sink without it ending up all over the kitchen or dining room floor ? Or to a dish-washer (I can not imagine it – it seems it has to be washed in the manual way only – in the sink)?
Sometimes I’m wondering if some of very the original designers in such field have kitchens and dining rooms of their own at all… Or whether they ever eat.
August 28th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
http://www.droog.com/products/accessories/tablecloth-with-bowl/
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August 28th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
I want to go on a picnic right now
August 28th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
very interesting design,but i don’t think it will be useful for everyday. At least,i think i do not like to use this in my everydays.
But still wish it can be a special show in the Designersblock in London next month.
August 28th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
it’s is quite different from droog. It’s very japanese in color , very dutch in concept . Great idea for eat west party
August 28th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
Is it possible to eat inside with cutlery?
I mean by that, “a knife” to cut the meat because there is some meat eaters… and a “fork”?
Unless this approach is intended only to Asia, because their food is already pre-cuted…
Francois Beydoun
August 28th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
It’s a neat idea but I think it would get annoying, since we typically are used to grabbing whatever food we’re getting and portion it ourselves without standing up. “Pass the potatoes, please.”
August 28th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
I could see going retro and just using an old set of school cafeteria lunch trays. Less material, minimalist dividers, and hard enough to smack an unruly bully over the head with.
August 28th, 2009 at 10:57 pm
i think this creates more problems than it solves…. looks pretty cool tho.
August 29th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
i would say thats weird..First. hard to store. Second. Hard to clean. And third – how do you actually transport food in it, from A to B when its so soft?
I just dont see the point
August 31st, 2009 at 4:53 am
idea is somewhere.
function is nowhere.
August 31st, 2009 at 5:06 am
I would like to rephrase myself.
The project is unique and clever, but solely in its conceptual attempt (even though its been done). The designer should have pursued this attempt as a pure conceptual project, but the mere effort in giving functions leads to its failure : how its washable, how there are many dishes, how its small enough for one person, yata yata yata.
If by trying to present this idea of plate-table cover as a functional “product”, the designer should have taken functionality in greater concern. As EVERYONE mentions, numerous problems are still visible and unaccounted, seems hard to use and the process of preparation is unrealistic.
But again, this project is the winner of “design CONCEPT” of Reddot, so who cares about functionality, right?
August 31st, 2009 at 7:41 am
Dudes,
I like the concept, but pass the soup could become deadly!
B
August 31st, 2009 at 11:30 am
yep , its the same as Saar Oosterhof’s 1998 table bowl- no respect for this work, author should be ashamed…
August 31st, 2009 at 11:43 pm
Won’t fit in my sink. Can’t be easy to box up leftovers. Who uses the same amount of serving plates every time? Where to store it when not in use, as it looks too big for a normal cabinet and rolling it for storage takes up much more space than the same number of single dishes would.
I’m so bored with designers who forget about functionality.
September 1st, 2009 at 12:41 am
better when made of carbon nanotubes; a flat tablecloth most of the time, but when you run a charge through it, it reforms into sturdy dinner ware. at least i think that’s how nanotubes could work. i’m no scientist.
September 1st, 2009 at 11:42 pm
Haven’t we seen this from Droog already?