BY MARK REED, EDITION 6/20, 21ST CENTURY

Reed’s experience of family life has inspired the present lot. Whilst teaching his baby to eat, the spoon suddenly became highly significant, as a means of giving nourishment and independence. The same implement can be alienating as well as vital, as in a baby’s hands, an adult spoon is enormous and out of place. This observation led to the stainless steel Spoon Bench, extraordinary in its size and perfectly balanced.