Rosenthal - Spot

Rosenthal Spot/design: Thomas Nathan

With its intertwining of original craftsmanship and industrial production, Thomas Nathan’s Spot design goes round in circles in the truest sense of the phrase. The cylinder serves as the main body for salt and pepper shakers and eggcups, which, if you look closely, are also adorned with fine, handcrafted dots. The top and side surfaces are defined by clear lines, which make a real feature of the proportions. Using few stylistic tools, Nathan has created a design that is radical in its clarity, concentration and functionality, bringing together a range of disciplines in the customary Bauhaus practice.

German designer Thomas Nathan (*1987) completed his Master of Arts in Social Design at the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands. He previously studied audiovisual media in Stuttgart. He combines knowledge of various disciplines in his designs. His style of working is characterised by an insistence that each piece should be unique, with the designer quite literally taking this matter into his own hands. Nathan works with individual pieces of clay that he shapes by hand. For his partnership with Rosenthal, Nathan has applied this handcrafted element to industrial production. So, instead of modelling the product itself, he makes the plaster mould by hand.