Project: Super-Ellipse Cutlery
Client: In-House Project
Date: 2008
The super-ellipse was invented by the mathematician Gabriel Lamé. In the 1960s, Danish poet and mathematician Piet Hein used its form to develop the optimal non-circular roundabout. It is neither elliptical (pointed), rectangular (with corners) nor circular. It can be viewed as the mathematical average of an ellipse and a rectangle. Here, the bowl of the spoon is a super-ellipse, the blade of the knife is based on a quarter super-ellipse and the fork also follows the form. The cross-sections of all three handles are super-ellipses.
