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# Chocolate Mill
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/chocolate-mill/
- Published: 2012-06-25T11:56:20.000Z
- Updated: 2025-05-28T11:02:22.000Z
- Description: A collaboration between Dutch designers to create a new way of eating and sharing chocolate.
- Author: Protein
- Tags: Seeds, Food & Drink, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:15, #author-change-2025-05-28

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As part of the [Vitra Design Museum](http://www.design-museum.de/en/information.html?ref=protein.xyz)'s exhibition '[Confrontations: Contemporary Dutch Design](http://www.design-museum.de/en/exhibitions/current-exhibitions.html?ref=protein.xyz)', Dutch design studio [Wieki Somers](http://www.wiekisomers.com/?ref=protein.xyz) collaborated with chocolatier [Rafael Mutter](http://www.confiserie-rafael-mutter.de/index.php?ref=protein.xyz) to create a new innovative way of experiencing chocolate. The exhibition was dedicated to a number of innovative Dutch designers whose experimental methods were similar to [Gerrit Rietvilds](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrit%5FRietveld?ref=protein.xyz), the renowned Dutch furniture designer and architect.

The team collaborated to create the 'Chocolate Mill', a large cylindrical block of chocolate from which thin shavings of chocolate were carved off using a rotating crank-turned blade. The chocolate was imprinted with a series of images (from a dancing couple to an African Bobo mask) so that as each layer was removed, a new design was revealed, creating a 'flip-book' effect.

As the designers explain, ' chocolate stimulates our senses and our brain at the same time...we sometimes forget how astounding it is. We wanted to inject a new excitement and enjoyment into chocolate by changing some rules: a new way of eating and sharing chocolate.'

It's an interesting project which explores new experiences, ritual and process. Check it out [here](http://organisationinde.m10.mailplus.nl/archief/mailing-31111968.html?ref=protein.xyz).

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