If ever a product was designed to solve a problem we didn't know we had but actually do, it's the Richard Hutten Fruit Tray. We say this because the fruit bowl is such an entrenched and even beloved way to ripen fruit.
Think about it and two images come to mind: a row of fragrant peaches or tomatoes ripening on a windowsill, and a bowl of succulent fruit sitting on the kithen table, inviting a snack.
Artists throughout the ages have fetishized the fruit bowl, raising its stature pratically to totem, with the Odalisque its only major rival as an object of cultural fascination here in the West.
So who is industrial designer Richard Hutten to come along and suggest that a piece of fruit is better off nestling next to but not touching all the other pieces, all nicely preserved in its own little compartment?
Having recently thrown out an entire lovely bowl of Fuji apples because of one bad one that infected all the others, we think that this design is a minor revolution, and that Richard Hutten is its leader.
Available (with no pun intended) at Urban Peel.
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I don't know... It just isn't as inviting as a bowl of fruit. Some things look nice in an industrial context, but fruit to me looks best in more clasical settings.
like to see it filled, i bet it would really look
good
Takes too much room on the counter for most folks. And to my eye it looks like that cardboard tray that holds two dozen eggs. It just misses....
I love it and want to figure out a way to display it on the wall in a very small alcove space but can't figure out a way to do so - it keeps falling off.. Any ideas?
Depending on how fragile it is, you should be able to hang it with a plate hanger, often found in craft shops. They have four metal hooks cross-strung with springs. The wall hanger is in the middle. You will be stuck with four visible (though small hooks coming around the edge of you "objet". You might hit them with some paint.
Thanks, Pat, for the good idea about hanging.