Norwegian Designer Stain Korntved Rudd Is Hand Carving A Beautiful Wooden Spoon Every Day For A Year...

The Norwegian designer and remarkable wood worker Stain Korntved Ruud is hand carving a simply beautiful spoon every day for a year.
He's completed over a hundred and thirty of them so far and you can see them all here.
You see, his lovely wife has organised a soup dinner for all their relatives and they have
rather a large family...

The Simple Beauty Of The Humble Wooden Spoon By Robin Wood...

Thirty years ago, Robin Wood made the decision to never do a day's work he didn't enjoy. He decided too, to put mind body and soul into his work and do it in an environment close to nature.
The act of taking a tree, cutting it open, feeling the wood and making it into something that will be useful and bring pleasure for years is as it is for many, immensely fulfilling.
I've seen this man's work before and was over at Lloyd Kahn's Blog the other day and Robin was featured there.
Louis Sullivan, the famous American architect said in 1896 It's the pervading law of all things organic and unorganic... that form follows function. And so it is with the humble spoon.
Robin Wood, the acknowledged and acclaimed arbitrator of things wooden opines that these are the best twenty spoons in the world. And who am I to disagree with him. You can see them all here with descriptions of how they were made, for what purpose and by who.  Robin's beautiful Wood Craft Blog is here and there's more on the man here...