Today is Christmas Eve (in Spain) sweet one day, so we bring you news regarding the major retrospective of in conjunction with its major Gerrit Rietveld retrospective, Vitra Design Museum invited five of the most innovative designers from the Netherlands to join a partner from the region in developing a design project.

The results are showing at Art Basel from 12 June (Art Basel) until 2 September 2012 in the exhibition “Confrontations". Studio Wieki Somers teamed up with chocolatier Rafael Mutter to create the "Chocolate Mill".

The Confrontation exhibit showcases similar creative collaborations where disparate industries were brought together to create anything. This chocolate mill features geometric white chocolate patterns that change with each layer of the chocolate block. By sliding a sharp metal piece around the top face of the dessert wheel, the finest layer of chocolate is shaved off, revealing different designs all the way down to its base. Citing a new way to taste and share chocolate, this novel exhibit is a one of a kind experience.

Making chocolate out of cocoa beans is a labour-intensive process. But once transformed into chocolate mass, the possibilities seem endless. The fluid mass of chocolate solidifying into different forms is a fascinating process, how it can break and melt again. Nowadays production possibilities can produce new forms of chocolate bars and bonbons by printing, milling, extruding, dripping and spinning chocolate. Solidified sediments, left overs of these processes, can become new chocolates.

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Published on: December 24, 2012
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<http://www.metalocus.es/en/news/chocolate-mill> ISSN 1139-6415
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