The Pistachio
Cutlery holder for SPARTAN SHOP
Research: Spartan Shop & Market
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Lifestyle Analysis
"Spartan shop offers a carefully considered collection of home goods, furniture, lighting and fine art.Sourcing and retail strategy for hotels and restaurants. Interiors styling for commercial and residential spaces." ————SPARTAN SHOP
Considering the relatively high price and design language, it is suggested that Spartan Shop's targeted consumer are from the middle-aged and senior group who love modern style, with spacious home and high demand for life quality and decoration. Interior designers, hotels and restaurants would also look into Spartan Shop for interesting pieces.
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Style Guide
Spartan Shop works with artists and designers, offers a wide range of home goods that are simple, decorative, modern, and with intakes from various traditions and cultures. The products are made with combinations of different materials like metal, ceramic, wood, and glass. The color palette ranges from neutral colors, muted colors and natural texture of wood and brass to vibrant glossy glazes and irregular pigmentations.
Spartan Shop has collections of ceramics and tabletops. It also emphasizes tablewares and dining, but there is no cutlery holder in its collection. With the retailer's artistic character, cutlery holders may also come in sculptural and unique form with deliberately-designed curves and finished with unique textures.
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Market Research
Looking at some existing cutlery and utensil holders, it is concluded that the products are priced from $20 to $200 according to the material and manufacture method. Some have dividers to hold different cutlery pieces. The size varies with the direction and number of storing.
The Pistachio is designed to hold four sets of normal-sized cutleries, small dessert spoons, and chopsticks. It can be easily carried around. At the same time of being perfectly functional, the Pistachio also accentuates your dining table with the sculptural form and unique texture from sustainable material.
The Pistachio
When enjoying food, beautiful tablewares always complement the delicacies. The serving pieces, plates, bowls, as well as cutleries, can be part of the dining experience. Cutleries are the smaller pieces that people would sometimes overlook. With a simple mellow form like pistachio and catchy texture like marble, the Pistachio cutlery holder is designed to accent the dining tools and offers them a chance to shine on your table. It can hold the tools from both western and eastern cultures, the fork, knife, chopsticks, and the spoon. The little “pistachios” can function as chopstick holders, easy to put on and take off. And please have some fun with them and change the form at times not using. The big section of the holder accommodates up to four sets of forks, spoons, chopsticks, and knives, and the small opening holds tiny spoons and forks to have desserts with.
With the soft curves, the Pistachio holder would fit your hands perfectly. It is designed to be carried around, from the kitchen to the dining table or vice versa. You can simply put the cutleries into it and bring them right to the table. It then offers you the convenience of having cutlery pieces on the dining table at any time. Just sit and share snacks, fruits and ice creams with friend and family, there is no need to go into the kitchen to grab forks and spoons. With 80% of material content made with grounded egg shell and nut shell, the cutlery holder has a unique natural texture, quite similar to that of marble. Apart from the appearance, the material also has great durability and waterproof quality, and of course, 100% food safe and non-allergy-irritable. The Pistachio cutlery holders comes in in two colors, beige and brown. You can choose whichever you like and accent your table.
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Final Model
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Rendering in Environment
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Scale of model & in-use