#38 Round Block Round Vessel Shipping-Furniture With more than a hundred

With more than a hundred photographs of finished dishes as well as moving and evocative atmospheric shots of Chinatown

Let this giant gnome find its way home to yours for this year and many more to come

Hand-hammered to perfection by designer Ruka Kikuchi — this large cheese knife has a pointed design for cutting semi-hard or semi-soft cheese

it’s easy to tend to one at a time

#38 Round Block Round Vessel Shipping-Furniture With more than a hundredAkio Nukagas work explores the possibilities of how he leaves a trace of himself in clay. In this piece, he stamps patterns into the soft, wet clay before it is fireda nod to Japanese techniques called inamun and mishimade. The form of the vesselinspired by ancient earthenwareappears textured and soft after stamping. After the first firing and before the second, he finishes the vessel by applying different colored slips (liquid clay)a technique that