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Gotham Magazine: KnifeForkSpoon

If you’re drawing a blank as to what to get the design aficionado in your life, look no further than Gotham Magazine.  FashionDirector and Editor at Large, Samantha Yanks has picked 15 of her favorite home décor holiday gifts.

Among her picks is SUITE New York’s KnifeForkSpoon, designed by John Pawson.  The origins of the elegant KnifeForkSpoon tableware lie in a project that John Pawson undertook for a Cistercian monastery in Bohemia.  The designs reflect a commitment to the discipline of paring away until what is left cannot be improved by further subtraction. Pawson states, “I seek the comfort of exactness, an absolute precision of scale and proportion.”  Knife, fork, spoon are united by a single handle profile and each demonstrates the potential lyricism in restraint.