Charles & Marie: Soupe du Jour

Alphabet Ice

Administrator — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 22:03:48 +0000

Here’s another one straight from the NY gift fair: Alphabet Ice Trays. Really nothing much that we have to say about those, they are pretty self explanatory, made out of black silicone, pretty much everything can be turned into letters here… The set includes three trays for the entire alphabet!
IMPORTANT: This week will feature brand new products from the fair, so they won’t ship until next week when all the designers return to their offices!
Price: $30 / 21€ plus shipping

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Tripot

Administrator — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:55:56 +0000

Fresh from the NY Gift Show comes this beautiful modern teapot by the good guys over at Vincent Reardon. Made locally here in the US by Boehm Porcelain, this version of the teapot caught our eye because of its unusual three-legged stance. Well, turns out that you can simply slide a votive candle underneath to keep it warm, no trivet or stand needed, so we like that. But even better, just tilt the teapot forward and start pouring, you don’t even have to lift it from its base, its unusual stance makes it easy to tilt and the ergonomic handle is placed in just the right angle, for a super easy use! Sweet! Currently only available in white, but we’ll update you when the black version comes out!
IMPORTANT: This week will feature brand new products from the fair, so they won’t ship until next week when all the designers return to their offices!
Price: $150 / 110€ plus shipping

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PopMat - Holiday Edition

Administrator — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:00:00 +0000

Remember the PopMats we brought you last February? Well, it just so happens that we were speaking to Liam for the past months about some holiday scenery Pop Mats and as if we knew it, here they are. Now granted, it’s throbbing summer here in the big city, but as we are planning to bring you a daily Soupe directly from the fair this week, we thought it’s a good way to start the week off. If you don’t know them, here’s a little intro:
Easy: pop-out placemats. Think of them, as placemats with a name card built in, cool, no? We simply adore them! They are made out of a beautiful, fiber rich paper, 13″ x 17″ (33 x 43 cm) in size and they are available in a wonderful cream color and a soft, warm white.
Three variations are available: The Deer, the Fire Place and lastly the Table Setting and all have a designated space to put the name. A set comes with 10 place mats and all you have to do is pop them out and fold them up, done, that’s it.
Not quite actually, you still have to conjure up a fab dinner to go alongside these fab placemats!
We know that you’re probably not thinking about the holidays yet, but you know that it is never to early to start preparing, it’ll be here faster than you think!
IMPORTANT: This week will feature brand new products from the fair, so they won’t ship until next week when all the designers return to their offices!
Price: $25 / 18€ plus shipping

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Nailed - 2 GB USB Stick

Administrator — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:00:00 +0000

There’s really not much that we can say with this unusual USB stick. We had to chuckle when we first saw it, a 2 GB USB stick – works on Macs and PCs equally well – shaped like one big, very big nail, looking like you just jammed the latter into your computer…
Pretty funny!
Price: $37 / 25€ plus shipping

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My Cuppa

Administrator — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:00:21 +0000

How do you take yours?
This question is now finally easy to answer. Color chips on the side show exactly how you take your coffee or tea. No more guess work just look at the color chip and once the color matches the chip, you are done!
Fabulous!
Price: $20 / 14€ plus shipping

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Bottle Cap Tripod

Administrator — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:00:15 +0000

So we are in the middle of summer and we thought it would be a great idea to remind you of one of the quintessential summer additions we have in stock.
When you travel you naturally take your camera. You snap away, a couple pics here, some there and then one of all of you. Ooops. So you find something to balance your camera on – it’s a wee bit too tall. Or it’s too low. It might also be too crooked, or too … fill in the blank. You most certainly know what we are talking about. Been there, done that. Well who hasn’t?
Today’s Soupe provides a solution to the issue that’s probably as old as the camera itself: What to use as a tripod when you don’t lug a tripod around? It’s easy, this little Bottle Cap Tripod slides onto the vast majority of national and international water caps, the universal adaptor fits onto pretty much every camera and the little hinge allows the little baby to swivel gently. That’s it you are done. Whether it’s the family picture, that special night shot or anything else that requires a tripod, the solution is in your pocket from now on.
Anything else left to explain? We think not… Genius!
Price: $10 / 10€ plus shipping

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Tobias Wong’s Wireless Switch

Administrator — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:00:48 +0000

We told you yesterday how much we like smart and witty designs here at C&M and today’s Soupe might not appear like such a product at first, but surely is…
Designed by Tobias Wong – who most recently was in charge of this years 100% Design show in Shanghai – it is a remote controlled switch in a beautiful Lucite box with magnetic closure. It is a beautiful piece that seemingly has no function, but simply open the box, flip the switch and voila: whatever you plugged in is now on or off.
It works beautifully for up to 100 feet (30 m), if you want to control anything further away we are afraid that you have to get up and flip that switch manually…
Price: $150 / 115€ plus shipping

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XO aka Mirror Tic Tac Toe

Administrator — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:00:51 +0000

We like smart and witty designs – you should know that by now – and we really like Shahar Peleg’s smart thinking on the XO.
Really simple and really well done the XO is a Tic Tac Toe game and yes, you might argue that there are a ton of them out there, but this one is special as it is played on a mirrored surface and the X and O are only half of what they should be. Why? Well, you are playing it on a mirror surface, hence no need for the other half.
Yup, pretty smart.
Price: $40 / 30€ plus shipping

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Pinky Tree

Administrator — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:00:58 +0000

A lot of you seemed to have missed this little fella, so here it is again for all of you who missed the Soupe from last week:
Sometimes having an office in SoMA is helpful, especially when you have to head over to the San Francisco Gift Fair where we spent a couple of hours yesterday. Trust us, it was – how should we put this – awful? That pretty much sums it up, at some point we were ready to just run out, but the rule says, you can’t leave until you haven’t seen even the most remote corner. So there we were trotting along when we stumbled upon this little beauty. Lo and behold in the furthest corner, tucked away was Pinky Tree.
At first we were chuckling, then we had a closer look, well we were sort of urged by Valerie, one of the owners to see what it was all about, then we started smiling, placed our order and here it is. Probably the worlds smallest living plant phone charm, keychain accessory, Tamagotchi, call it what you want that we ever saw. What is it? It’s a teeny weeny cactus in a teeny weeny glass jar. Sitting in real soil, with little holes in the bottom so you can water it once a month and see it grow.
Pretty hilarious was what we thought, but in fact those little guys really do grow if dealt with properly, Succulents and Cacti only need very little water and at that size they need even less. And if treated properly they can really grow up to become, well, grown up Cacti… We saw Valerie’s little friend and she had hers for a year now and is getting ready to take it out and plant it into a pot because it pretty much doesn’t fit in the little tube anymore.
Need we say more? Nah, that should suffice. Well maybe we’ll just tell you that you can’t get them anywhere else online in the US except here…
Colors: Pearlito, Pilly, Smoothy, Sphera
Price: $11 / 10€ plus shipping

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LampLamp Set

Administrator — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:00:07 +0000

We are sure that you know how much we adore the LampLamp – click here if you don’t know it already – it is a witty addition to our curated shopping section and a favorite of yours for a long time as well.
We have received countless emails asking for the base we displayed the LampLamp in but it wasn’t available for the longest time. Well, the longest time is finally over and they are shipping from Japan as we speak!
And to make it easy for all of you, we are shipping this as a set and are including a LampLamp in it, this way you can show it off in all its beauty!
Colors: Black, White
Price: $68 / 58€

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