Cue Future’s Baby’s iconic hit from the 2000s – Prepared To Dangle’s newest launch has us nostalgic for the dessert that’s been staging a quiet comeback. We’ve seen jelly reappear in meals styling and trend, and now, due to RTH, in inside design. Impressed by the beloved kitchen staple present in pantries internationally, Prepared To Dangle brings jelly’s translucent high quality and sculptural type out of the kitchen and into the house with the Jelly Mirror.
Like its culinary namesake, Jelly is all about adaptability. Whereas the dessert takes the form of any mould or pan, this model effortlessly conforms to your area, including a playful, mid-century contact to any room. “I wished it to really feel candy and a little bit unusual, like one thing you’d discover in a surreal dessert dream,” RTH’s founder Jeffrey Renz shares with Design Milk. It feels simply as at residence in an elegant front room because it does in a whimsical playroom. Crafted not from gelatin however polished resin, the mirror glistens in daylight, casting jewel-toned shadows that dance throughout the partitions.
With its gelatinous shine and repetitive curves, Jelly appears nearly adequate to eat. In case you didn’t know higher, you would possibly anticipate it to wobble with the slightest contact. “The most important problem was making one thing really feel fluid in a very strong materials,” the founder reveals. “We spent a whole lot of time refining the curves and the resin mould, getting the form simply imperfect sufficient to really feel alive. It needed to appear like it was about to wiggle, regardless that it by no means would.”
Many people have fond reminiscences of Jell-O, together with Renz. “As a child, I used to be obsessive about the best way jelly moved, the way it held its form and likewise surrendered to each contact,” he reminisces. “There was one thing hypnotic about it, and perhaps even a little bit sensual. I bear in mind urgent spoons into Jell-O and watching it slowly return to stillness. That reminiscence positively fed into this design.” By reinterpreting a retro dessert by the lens of up to date design, Prepared To Dangle transforms a well-recognized type into one thing contemporary, purposeful, and delightfully sudden. Each the Cherry and Honey variations are equally delectable in their very own method, however this Jelly is made to final – and shine (actually) in its new resurrected period.
Jelly is out there in two colours – Honey and Cherry – and its compact 21 x 21 x 3.5-inch body makes it simple to hold nearly wherever.
To get your arms on the Jelly Mirror by Prepared To Dangle earlier than it wiggles off the cabinets, go to ready-to-hang.com.
Pictures by Matthew Gordon & Silvia Foz.
