[About the product]
Marianne Hallberg×This is a tea bowl from the Setoyaki series.
It's more reliable than a bowl and lighter than a bowl. The practical capacity is approximately 200ml, making it the perfect size for mini bowls, soups, and salads. The gentle, distorted form and uneven surfaces blend in gently in the hand. It comes with a hill so it's easy to hold even when storing hot dishes, and stack them. The blue lines bleed into the white background quietly enhance the color of your food, and naturally blend into any dining table in Japan, Western, and Chinese.
This appearance gives off a sense of nostalgia, inspired by folk craft utensils used in China, was shaped by Marianne.
There's empty space there, so I think about something I want to satisfy. However, no matter how much you satisfy it, it will turn empty again. This tea bowl really expresses Marianne's idea.
It's a tea bowl she makes, so of course you can use it freely. Please use it for other purposes besides tableware. Fill in water to float flowers, stack the stones you have picked up, pile up acorns, or fill with empty vessels at any time.
For me, this bowl is really simple. I can imagine people all over the world eating whatever they like freely. Easy to hold, doesn't get in the way, this is enough. It's truly about living simply.
- Marianne
Click here for the empty tea bowl, S (seto)
[From the production side]
I'll be writing about this tea bowl from the production side. For example, what I think of before this tea bowl is this sight.
I was so obsessed with the conversation at Marianne's workshop that I ended up eating a "makain" at lunchtime. The plump rice was cooked and dried fish was also grilled. That's where Marianne fed the rice to me. This is a vessel that is simpler than any other piece of work scattered around the workshop. I asked, and they said they had been using this all the time here, and they had baked my portion yesterday. It's a dish that's made just for use now, with no decorations. Tea bowls are the temporary place for food to move from outside to people. Food remains in the bowl for a moment, always becoming empty or empty. What a busy but humble role a tea bowl is. We emptyed the bowls and Marianne took them off in layers of empty space. This hasn't happened before, but I feel like this will continue to happen in the future. That's what I think is the "empty tea bowl."
・About Marianne's Vessel Series
I looked for the right distortion so that I could reproduce the traces of Marianne's handwork. When you compare it to a regular rounded bowl, the difference can be immediately conveyed through your palm and fingertips. The edges and edges are decorated with minimal decorations, with Marianne Blue lines added to the edges. When viewed from above, this circle looks like a moon, but this vessel series means a blank space with its mouth open, and it honestly accepts and enhances what you eat, bringing it to your stomach.