Aldo Bakker - kitchen design

Ever since I can remember, I've been addicted to kitchen gadgets. This means that I need blinkers whenever I'm walking through the kitchen section of any homewares store or I emerge later on, dazedly clutching something I really don't need, like a neon pink egg peeler (that takes longer to set up than it would to peel an egg) or an olive de-pipper. It all goes back to my mother who was cured with the same affliction. Nobody in the family will ever forget how excited she was about her revolutionary new lettuce knife that promised any lettuce it cut wouldn't ever go brown. This turned out to be because it was as blunt as a spoon and so wouldn't cut the lettuce in the first place. Still, their marketing wasn't exactly a lie... However, Also Bakker's collection is not only useful but also beautiful and simple and thus should be firmly on wish lists everywhere.