Cheburashka

Luca Nichetto and Lera Moiseeva designed for Dymov Ceramics the Cheburashka table set, that will be presented at Spazio Rossana Orlandi during Milan Design Week.

Some objects go beyond cultures and are absorbed into different habits and adjusted to them, thus immediately becoming everyday and familiar items.

The Cheburashka project, which has the purpose of emphasizing food sharing, takes shape on these observations.

The set is composed of a larger, collective container, from which to take any food, with large handles that make carrying easy, and a lid that, if reversed, becomes a handy flat base for the large serving spoon. Two equal-sized bowls complement the set, which can be easily stored away by stacking the elements on each other. This makes the whole set similar to a “totem” with a strong decorative impact: the hand-engraved lines on the surface of the ceramics resemble those of a fishing net wrapping up the set and holding together its ready-to-be-shared content.

The name is inspired by Cheburashka, an odd-looking and big-eared little animal character, who grew very popular in children’s literature of the former Soviet Union. Cheburashka is also an old russian word signifying float of fishing net.