A vessel and spoon for serving Greek yogurt, inspired by the corrugated cow shed roofs at The Holy Monastery of St. John the Forerunner in Anatoli, Thessaly, Greece. The Greek Orthodox monastery was founded in the 16th century and revived by an international group of women monastics in 2000. The nuns inspired by each of their countries’ culinary traditions produce various artisanal products, including a traditional Greek style strained yogurt. The vessels have been milled in solid sapele wood, then finished and waxed by hand. The spoons have been 3d printed in steel and bronze Originally commissioned for the inaugural issue of Mold Magazine, an editorial platform about designing the future of food, they were presented in a feature focusing on yogurt-making in the context of eight global cultures, representing the making tradition in each city of origin

Design: Greece is for Lovers

Greece is for Lovers is the brainchild of Thanos Karampatsos and Christina Kotsilelou, as lovingly conceived at the foot of the Acropolis hill in 2006.
Sharing similar aesthetic influences, the creative minds behind it introduced a brand new sense of  ‘Greekness’ to contemporary product design, by mixing up a concoction of their country’s spiciest ingredients: humour, irony, nonchalance and extravagance. Inspired by the stereotypical notion of what is widely held to be Greek, their designs comment on habitual activities and behavioural patterns  of both the past and the present; they narrate an alternative home country, consisting of part memory, part fantasy and part wish.