Agate Kalnpure

In a world of integrated economies, the seasons lose their particular flavour. Strawberries in winter, cabbage in spring – everything is available, but the taste is not the same. You can’t buy the yearning for those first ripe blackberries to appear. Landscape designer Agate Kalnpure drew upon childhood memories of eating with the seasons at her grandmother’s home to create a series of dishes meant to serve only distinct local vegetables. Without greenhouses and global supply chains, they might only leave the cabinet a few times a year. With their rich colours and detail, the dishes point to dynamics of scarceness and plenty. No one really longs for the last wrinkled carrots of winter, but year-round tomatoes and delicious exotic fruits come at a heavy price as well. Kalnpure’s dishes are accompanied from a set of spoons that represent Nordic summer berries, beautiful and impractical at the same time.