Estelle Sauvage's Easy-Bake 'Kettle' Powered By a Light Bulb
Designer Estelle Sauvage decided to respond to the European Union's ban on incandescent light bulbs by trying to craft a lasting legacy for the filament as it steadily marches toward the grave, "demonized by ecology." Sauvage's Kettle isn't much more than an Easy-Bake oven, relying on a single incandescent bulb in its base to warm the water in the pot through its lost radiant heat. Considering ...
For design aficionados, the name "Memphis" is more likely to evoke the influential '80s Italian design movement than it is the home of rock 'n' roll. For those who missed the movement's heyday, Danish kitchenware company Bodum will be releasing a kettle originally designed by Memphis founder Ettore Sottsass.
Sottsass designed the kettle in 1986, but, due to manufacturing problems, it never went ...









