Until the early 17th century, it was considered good English table manners to stab your meat with a knife, then rip it apart with your hands. Why use a fork — that newfangled Continental invention — ...

These cutlery sets look beyond functionality as abstract and surrealist forms take over a usually thoroughly practical genre, with influences from jewellery and sculpture. Created by craftspeople and ...

Architecture firm UNStudio applied a curving design reminiscent of its built projects to this set of cutlery for Italian brand Alessi. The Giro cutlery set gets its name from the twisting handle that ...

Manufacturers of Uzi(R) tactical cutlery - designed for professional use. Look for our new tactical brand coming in 2012. Hallmark Cutlery has 30 years expeirence in cutlery design, manufacturing, ...

Unless you enjoy whittling twigs into chopsticks or stabbing tinned ravioli with a pen knife, forgetting the cutlery and reverting to eating with one's hands can be one step too far removed from ...

Snøhetta is no stranger to transdiscipline design, having created everything from architecture to graphics, however this is the Norwegian firm's first foray into tabletop product. A new set of weighty ...

Gone are the days when cutlery was seen only as a tool for eating. Today, cutlery is getting the designer treatment, with gem-studded spoons and forks so pretty they could double as jewellery. Think ...

A design secret could make food taste better and encourage "more mindful" eating habits, according to design studio Michel/Fabian You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if ...

For 700 years the cutlers of Sheffield have been going at it hammer and tongs. Strung out along the banks of the River Don, this highly specialised industry has, for centuries, led the world in the ...