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Menu has turned things upside down. Now wine needs a coat to stay cool!

Cool Coat, Menu’s creative wine cooler, lives up to its name. It is really cool! A fully innovative, ingenious alternative to the traditional wine cooler with ice that leaves melted water on the table every time you take the bottle out of the bucket.

Cool Coat is the invention of designer Jakob Wagner, who is also the man behind many of the items in Menu’s Vignon series, which consists of an array of accessories for handling, storing and serving wine. Cool Coat consists of two layers of textiles and a loose wrap sewn with channels filled with cooling gel. You just have to put the wrap in the freezer for some time and then put it back in the coat and give the bottle its cold apparel. After just 15 minutes, the temperature of the wine will be reduced by about 10°C and the chilled wine can be poured into glasses while the remains in the bottle will stay fresh in the coat-clad bottle – without dripping on the table.

Cool Coat comes in black with a grey wrap and a new white version with black or lime wrap and push button. “The coat fits most bottles, and you can adjust the collar as you like to give Cool Coat its own personalised touch,” says designer Jakob Wagner.

Design: Jakob Wagner
Materials: Textiles, plastic, metal push button, cooling gel

New, stylish press coffee maker matching the bread bags color scheme. Under cover is a new kind of coffee press – all known inconveniences from the traditional press coffee maker are “designed” away. The cover keeps the coffee warm and prevents table scratches. The jug is practical – you can pour no matter how the top is positioned. The cover may be washed up to 30 degrees.

Design: Klaus Rath

Content – 1 litre
Materials – stainless steel, plastic, glass and fabric
Width – ø 11,5 cm
Heigth – 18,5 cm

Product: Toddler Table cutlery
Company: Fabrikators
Designer: Josefine Bentzen

Children cutlery

The Copenhagen Fabrikators firms and ToddlerCompany are behind the new Danish-designed children’s cutlery, ToddlerTable cutlery. The cutlery is designed to support the child’s motor development, and makes it look good on a dining table. ToddlerTable cutlery is nominated for Formland Design Award – Autumn 2009.

This is the child’s own cutlery. The shape is good, the colors are just right, and the expression is unique. Function with anti-slippage means that the child can hold on to it firmly. The cutlery is playful, practical and very appealing – and it’s created in an environmentally friendly material, said the nomination committee.

Josefine Bentzen designed ToddlerTable cutlery, designed for children between six months and up to two years – and parents who desire that their children learn to eat neatly. The cutlery is formed from the particular way children hold things. The shaft of the cutlery fills the entire hand and makes it easier for the child to control it. The indicative retail price is $ 299

Designer Pernille Vea and Menu have created a new tea and coffee series with a cafetiere, teapot and practical thermal cups.

The simple, white porcelain thermal cups with the tempting spring green colour on the inside match Menu’s functional new teapot and cafetiere. All of the series’ pieces are created by designer Pernille Vea and made of a daring mix of New Bone China porcelain and silicone. Despite their major differences, the two materials harmonise well and give the pots and cups a unique look, as well as special soft and warm glow. “With my choice of materials and colours, I have added a new freshness to the timeless, pure and classic Scandinavian mode of expression,” says designer Pernille Vea, who has also created a wide array of successful designs for Menu, including the award-winning porcelain series, Black Contour.

The new thermal cups have double porcelain walls and an insulating hollow core that maintains the temperature of beverages and also ensures that the cups are always comfortable to hold and drink from. The size of the thermal cups is suitable for tea, a large cup of coffee, cappuccino or latte, and they naturally match the new teapot with a built-in tea infuser and the cafetiere, which is good news for those who have longed for a cafetiere made of porcelain.

Design: Pernille Vea
Materials: New Bone China porcelain, silicone

Product: Anine
Company: Horn Commodity Factory
Designer: Sara Bruun Buch

Horn bowls in a smart design

The West Jutland firm Horn goods factory’s vases Anine are nominated for the Formland Design Award – Autumn 2009. Based on kohorn, designer Sara Bech Bruun created a modern design product for the house. Horn goods factory is the only remaining company in Denmark producing handicrafts in kohorn.

The designer has managed to create beauty out of something so simple and natural as a kohorn. We have already seen the material in other functions, from powder horns for drinking cups to the current design. The vases are beautiful and modern with a perfect finish of the form in which the sharp line at the bottom is the icing on the cake, says the nomination committee.

Anine is designed by Sara Bruun Buch, who in October 2008 over the Horn of goods factory, and has since led the production of new design directions with respect for the old crafts. The concept behind Anine is dragging nature into the room with a touch of modernity. The result is decorative objects and vases, and the recommended retail price is from $ 499 to $ 699

About Formland Design Award:
Formland Design Award goes each half to the season’s most striking novelties in design, handicrafts and interior. The winner is chosen from among submissions from Form Lands exhibitors. The independent pricing committee’s emphasis is on innovation, functionality, design and price. The winner receives a prize statuette and a marketing contribution of 100,000 USD. Formland Design Award has been awarded since 1987.

The Scandinavian pricing committee consisted this time of the furniture designer and architect Birgitte Appelong, director of the Swedish, moderator Lotta Ahlvar, graphic designer John Boye and creative chief Jørn Moesgaard.

The winner of Formland Design Award – Autumn 2009 will be published on Friday 14 August at the official opening of Formland in MCH Fairs Herning. It has posted 70 products Formland Design Award. Read more about Formland Design Award at www.formland.com.

Formland Autumn 2009 will take place from 14 to 17 August 2009 in Fairs MCH Herning. It involves over 600 companies, which is at the same level as the latest exhibition in the spring. Formland celebrates its 25th anniversary of the fair days.

New teapot from Menu combines classical porcelain with modern silicone.

It may not be obvious to use two materials that are so very different as porcelain and silicone in the same product. Nonetheless, this is precisely the combination selected by designer Pernille Vea for Menu’s new teapot. The result is a teapot that is simultaneously modern and timeless. The simple white teapot has a surprisingly fresh and highly Scandinavian expression that is emphasised by the lid’s spring green colour that leads one’s thoughts to beech and birch trees in spring.

The teapot has a 1.5 litre capacity and is made of delicate New Bone China porcelain and silicone, which fit very well together. “I selected the two materials because they both have a special glow that makes the simple classic design more accommodating. The silicone wrap on the base also serves a practical function. It provides insulation, so that you can place the hot teapot on the table without damaging the table’s surface,” explains designer Pernille Vea.

The teapot’s lid includes a large and practical built-in tea infuser that is easily and discretely lifts into a small groove in the top when the tea is finished brewing. The tea infuser can be fully disassembled, making it easy to clean after use.

Pernille Vea has also designed a cafetiere for coffee drinkers with a similar design and materials, as well as a thermo cup that matches the cafetiere and teapot.

Design: Pernille Vea
Materials: New Bone China porcelain, silicone, chrome-plate zinc alloy

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