Våg Rest

A rest to complete your table setting

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Do you use a cutlery rest?
Do you use chopstick or cutlery rests at everyday meals?
Rests help keep chopsticks clean and are part of table etiquette. Yet in busy daily life, when there is little time to set the table or the whole family rarely eats together, it is easy to put chopsticks straight on a plate or table. Even as Japanese households enjoy a wider variety of cuisines, chopsticks still appear at many meals.

With the gentle shape and colors of a miniature Våg plate, it is especially charming when held in your hand.
Chopstick rests are often associated with Japanese tableware, but this one joins the Western-style Våg collection simply as a “Rest.”
As well as holding chopsticks, it fits naturally with cutlery for Western dishes and desserts, giving the table a fresh feel.

For chopsticks, forks and spoons

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Cutlery rests often match a plate's color or pattern, but how often do you find one that looks like a miniature version of the plate itself?
If you collect Våg for everyday use, this rest adds another way to enjoy the series as a set. Its colorful palette and simple, modern shape are also an unusual find for collectors of chopstick rests.

Våg's origins and functional beauty, shaped around everyday use

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It began with a request from our customers.

Alongside our own stores, many other shops carry POTPURRI tableware.
In the four years following the launch of Våg, we made a great many pieces.
Staff and buyers from the shops carrying our tableware asked for a piece that would add an accent to their table settings.
We wanted it to serve a different purpose from the existing pieces, and concluded that Våg's shape was perfect for a versatile rest for chopsticks, forks and spoons.

We began by making prototype models, trying them ourselves and gathering feedback from staff. But whenever we emphasized practical functions such as holding chopsticks, the shape lost its balance or no longer felt quite like the other pieces in the series.
The Våg series was designed more than 16 years ago.
We showed our prototypes to Yamada, the original designer of Våg, and asked for help. The first reaction was surprise: “A chopstick rest?!” We passed on the requests we had received and explained where our prototypes were falling short. Remarkably, five 3D design proposals arrived the very next day. Some looked quite different from the existing Våg pieces, yet still belonged with them.
From there, we repeatedly refined the thickness, shape, weight and size, considering both ease of production and ease of use.

Mix sizes and colours

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A cutlery rest may not appear at every dinner. This one can serve as a chopstick rest every day, then take its place at a special dinner table too.
Choosing rests is part of the fun: matching colors and mixed colors both look lovely.

Turn the piece over

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Våg revives a design by ceramic designer Kazuo Yamada. The rounded shapes and bright colours have made the collection a favourite at POTPURRI.

The pieces work together across a table setting. A glaze that develops mottled markings in the kiln brings out the soft curves of the porcelain. The underside carries the collection name, the designer’s signature and the mark of the kiln in Gifu where each piece is fired.

Explore the Våg collection

 

 

Color	GRAY, GREEN, RED, WHITE, YELLOW