Alessi — Shiba NF202/15 | Fukasawa hiba wood utensil

There is a handcrafted quietness in hiba wood that no synthetic material could ever replicate. Naoto Fukasawa's Shiba is a utensil designed for cooking the most delicate ingredients - those that call for respect, slowness, and care. Hiba wood, a Japanese cypress with a tight grain and fragrant core, carries with it a thousand-year tradition of use in the kitchen: naturally antimicrobial, moisture-resistant, soft to the touch yet resilient in form. Holding it in your hands while stirring a light broth or handling a fish is a gesture that slows time. Naoto Fukasawa is among the most thoughtful Japanese designers of his generation: he has made subtraction his aesthetic manifesto, seeking in every object the form that already exists in the intuition of its use. Shiba was born from this philosophy - nothing is superfluous, nothing is showy. The fifteen-centimeter diameter is tailored with precision to the pots in the Alessi collection, creating a dialogue of scale and material between West and East that is the hallmark of his entire collaboration with the Crusinallo manufacturer. At Stilmobili, we chose it because we believe that even the tools of everyday cooking deserve their own aesthetic dignity. Shiba is for those who do not separate cooking from design, for those who like every object on the cooktop to tell something about itself. It is a gift of great sensitivity, equally capable of speaking to a lover of Japanese culture and to anyone simply seeking beauty in everyday gestures. Project notes: Hiba wood (Japanese cypress). Diameter 15 cm. Net weight 158 g. End-of-line piece - limited availability.