Heritage to
the table.
Busaba, the hotel and cafe provider in Ayutthaya wanted a signature dessert and its own presentation in their new fine dessert bar , objects that felt native to where they stood, not generic fine-dining props.
The constraint: both had to survive real service.
The dessert had to be repeatable by the kitchen, the fork producible and comfortable in the hand. Success meant two objects a guest would recognise as belonging only to this place.
Heritage, translated
into form.
I worked from two fixed sources, one per object. The fork's form is drawn from the client's own traditional Thai architecture. Meanwhile, the dessert's silhouette from Ayutthaya's old currency. The design decision that held the piece together was pairing them, brand heritage in the tool, civic heritage on the plate, so the two objects read as a matched set rather than a dessert with cutlery beside it.Each source was reduced to a single clean silhouette that had to survive translation into a very different material: one edible and repeatable, one metal and ergonomic.
The result
on the plate.
Translating fixed heritage, architecture, Ayutthaya's currency, into new physical objects is the same move I make now, turning brand and context into a digital product interface.
