Create Visual Appeal With Marble Kitchenware

Modern kitchenware showcases more than functional features, it also quenches our thirst for visual appeal. Kitchen accessories have come a long way since the early days of simplicity and uniformity. Now we can choose from a myriad of models that resonate with our personal preferences and match our kitchen design. Contemporary kitchenware has been lifted to an artistic level by designers who look for the best materials, textures and design lines to convey a sense of beauty and functionality.Helping you get a grip on each spaghetti portion, this marble spaghetti measurement collection comes from the creative minds of Studio Lievito. These four kitchenware items help you decide the right portion for one, two, three or four persons, depending on your guest list. With their clean geometric lines, the spaghetti measuring tools are an elegant way of displaying your kitchen tools in a contemporary environment.

Have you been to Umami Mart in Oakland yet? The Japanese kitchenware and bar shop that grew out of a blog opened almost a year ago, chock full of unique tools and home to myriad events.Owners (and newly crowned Stylemakers) Kayoko Akabori and Yoko Kumano are now popping the lid on phase two of Umami Mart: U-Mart.Tucked in the back of the shop, U-Mart will be a Japanese convenience shop, dubbed a combini. Here"s how combini culture in Japan is described by one travel guide:It is said that in Japan there is a combini for 2 000 inhabitants. They are found literally at every street corner in the major cities, but are also present in smaller cities and rural areas. The combini stores are so widespread that people are surprised when they hear of a place (generally small remote islands) without a combini.

U-Mart might not be open 24 hours a day, but it will sell various Japanese snacks, candies, dried foods, rice balls, cold non-alcoholic drinks, magazines, other condiments and cooking ingredients.  Umami Mart, with its new floors, is bringing in the store"s original designer, Copenhagen-based Ander Arhoj to design the combini; see a rendering above.