“Gutt” Kitchen Knife Stand

DESIGN: Maria Żołyńska

Poland

make me! 2018

The idea was to create an object that would be part of kitchen architecture and at the same time an element of food and cooking culture. Building materials such as: marble, granite, ceramics and concrete, as well as the shape of the holder, create one form representing the concept of a kitchen in a technological and ideological sense. The holder is made of terrazzo which gives you many aesthetic possibilities. Cement can be colored and conglomerate create countless combinations. The use of ceramic waste to create the terrazzo structure may be an interesting ecological feature. “Gutt”, though organic in form, through the material used also bears the mark of the cold architecture of “brutalism.” I really like this juxtaposition where the contemporary and witty treatment of the subject, combined with the very old technology, gives a fresh modernist result.