Materials: Ceramic
Price Point: $30-70 (based on size)
"Bringing play to your table, these round-bottomed bowls rock and spin with a touch, but won’t tip over, just like children's toys..."
"The movement of the bowls evoke both fear and delight in the tension between potential disaster and surprising joy with the question of whether they will contain their contents or create a spill. Every bowl has the same round bottom that keeps it upright, but each has a unique hand-shaped rim and nest for storage. Produced in fun colors, including bright orange, yellow, and white. Slip-cast ceramic. "
Designer: Jessica Phillips
Link: NA
Location: Oakland, CA
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These are kind of awesome, but where can I get them?
I love the shape and colors, but the wobble would actually turn me off from buying them. Even if they won't capsize, they would definitely roll far enough to make a big mess.
Maybe dry contents would be ok, like a candy dish. Do people still use candy dishes? Maybe this could help bring them back in vogue.
it's great, i love them, want to make sexy time with the designer too
Cool, but not for soup!
these are just wonderful... takes 'playing with your food' to a whole new level. i've used wine glasses that wobble in a similar way (can't remember the designer- my friend said she picked them up from the MoMA design store) and there were no messy spills, just a lot of fun. maybe the imagined risk of spilling hot soup on yourself is even more cause to celebrate these.
found a link to the glasses i've referenced above: http://www.momastore.org/museum/moma/ProductDisplay_Wobble%20Cognac%20Glasses_10451_10001_26867_-1_11515_11519_null__
There's a big difference in the wobble glasses and these bowls. The bowls would actually rock, with nothing to stop them from going too far, whereas those glasses have a lip that sets them at a fixed angle, and just spin. They can rock beyond their lip.
I can't imagine a scenario where I would celebrate the possibility/anticipation of being burnt by a boiling bisque, singed by a scorching stew, charred by a calescent consomme, or even parched by a piping pottage.
These look pretty, but I'm not at all sold on the concept.
I doubt anyone would be silly enough to put boiling hot liquids or anything like that into one of these bowls, but don't see a point to these besides the novelty factor. Or to make guests nervous.
Useless.
Drat. I hate voting with the majority. Makes me feel so... common...
Love the look and the colors. I can't wait 'til I get one so I can screw with my dog's mind.
I have one of Jessie's bowls. I generally use it to serve salad. I'm not sure why everyone got on this liquids bent -- don't you serve something other than soup at your house? If not, it must make for pretty monotonous dinner parties.