To stage an exhibition of cutlery is to imagine a room full of mouths anticipating contact — lips closing over a rim, teeth grazing metal, the instinctive choreography between wrist and jaw.
During Melbourne Design Week, Table Manners convenes Belle Thierry, Hamish Munro, Hamish Donaldson, Julian Leigh May, Studio Kyss, Ryan Mueller, Sebastião Lobo, Soie Lait, Snelling Studio, Studio Yeodong Yun and Tai Snaith—each producing a one-off set distilled through the guiding principles of their own practice. Shown alongside selections from the Kraftsman collection.
Florian Home
Thu 14 – Sun 17 May 2026
Curated by @objectmassive
Exhibition design by @streifen._
Presented by @union.magazine
Hosted by @florianhome.florianhome
Production by @b.ells___
Graphic design by 3z22j
We are delighted to be exhibiting in Table Manners as part of Melbourne Design Week.
Snelling Studio presents Ut serviamus, a set of five serving instruments shaped through proportion, alignment, and offering. The works draw on the etiquette of shared dining, where serving precedes possession and action is directed toward others. Lathe-turned timber paired with mirrored stainless steel registers these exchanges as spatial and relational gestures between hands.
Ut serviamus, 2026
Set of five serving instruments
Lathe-turned timber, hand-finished mirrored stainless steel
Pictured: Duo Manus, 2026
Lathe-turned timber, hand-finished mirrored stainless steel
325 × 55 × 50 mm
Table Manners is an exhibition narrowing its focus to the objects we bring, repeatedly and intimately, to our mouths. Each designer was commissioned to produce a singular set of cutlery distilled by the guiding principles of their practice, shown alongside historical and contemporary works from the Kraftsman collection.
Opening 14 May at Florian Home as part of Melbourne Design Week.
Images by @georgiasmedley / @objectmassive
Presented by @union.magazine , @objectmassive and @streifen._ with production by @b.ells___
Melbourne Design Week is an initiative of the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.
Aotearoa Art Fair, Last Day!
Wall House Party, Booth 38, Level 1
Rebecca Snelling
View Maud Keeper, 2026
Hand-turned oiled black walnut, formed mirrored stainless steel
143.5 × 36.5 × 36.5 cm
View Sedilia Table Lamp, 2026
Hand-turned oiled black walnut, formed mirrored stainless steel
48 × 38 cm
View Oriel Candle Holder, 2026
Hand-turned oiled black walnut, mirrored stainless steel
35 × 7 x 7cm
They are messages not in words, but in shapes and what I see.
View explores ideas of levitation through observation of the horizon and the vertical points that interrupt it, whether built or natural. They punctuate this horizon, drawing the eye upward and establishing elevation and stillness. Form, silhouette, mirrored stainless steel, and the grain of hand-turned timber are sensitively assembled to examine and articulate these perceptions.
This body of work is steeped in studio research, emerging through the process of reduction and deep material exploration into refined form and silhouette.
Rebecca Snelling is a multidisciplinary artist and designer based in Tāmaki Makaurau whose practice spans sculpture, drawing, and material-led object work. Anchored in sustained material research, her work engages conceptual design and formal concerns through processes of making and material enquiry.
Catalogue enquire 📧 [email protected]@snellingstudio@aotearoaartfair
A distilled composition of mirrored forms, the Lens Pendant Major explores light through reflection and repetition. Casting a warm, ambient glow, the piece extends the collection’s sculptural language with quiet clarity and presence.
Lens Pendant Major From the Lens Collection, 2021
(H) Custom × (Ø) 610mm × (D) 81mm
Lygia Clark’s practice continues to inform our thinking, particularly her treatment of material as something active, responsive, and held in the hand. Her folded steel works resist fixity, inviting movement, touch, and exchange, shifting the relationship between object and body.
Images courtesy Associação Cultural O Mundo de Lygia Clark
View Maud Keeper, 2026
Hand-turned oiled black walnut, formed mirrored stainless steel
(H) 1435mm × (W) 365mm × (D) 365mm
A vertical spatial keeper informed by the upward rhythm of urban silhouettes in a condition of poised levitation.
Presented with Artor Contemporary at the Aotearoa Art Fair,
30 April – 3 May 2026.
View Oriel Candle Holder, 2026
Hand-turned oiled black walnut, mirrored stainless steel
310 (H) × 70 (W) × 70 (D) mm
A reductive form holding light in stillness and quiet transcendence.
Presented with Artor Contemporary at the Aotearoa Art Fair,
30 April – 3 May 2026.
