Let it rest.

Our neigbourhood restaurant Bellies (located just 400 meters from the Odd Standard HQ, or even less if we swim across the water inlet that parts us) needed something to rest the cutlery on. While you can rest your cutlery on basically anything, we wanted to turn this project into something more interesting than just a pretty ceramic object. We figured this could be a good opportunity to making use of the plates that the restaurant had broken on particularly stressful days.

We had once before attempted to glaze broken plates together into layered constructions, but there was too much tension to make this a durable solution. When the items are as small as cutlery rests it is a different story.

Pieces with the right dimensions are cut out from already broken plates and these are glazed onto smaller pieces to lift the cutlery rest from the restaurant table. Edges are sanded to make them less sharp, and the rests are given a touch of glaze before the are fired once again.

The biggest challenge was to cut pieces from the plates since the ceramics we make are very strong. It took a brand new diamond blade to get the job done.

All the cutlery rests are shaped differently, but set within a minimum and maximum length and width.