These may look good enough to eat, but they’re actually woven and stitched! Amazing!

scholten and baijings vegetables

a view into the showcase
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recently the dutch designer duo scholten and baijings opened a retrospective at
vivid gallery in rotterdam. they called their exhibition ‘from japanese furniture to vegetables’.

during milan design week 2010, at rossana orlandi in milan they showcased inedible
vegetables with a great sense of realism to real produce. from a distance the stalks
of raw rhubarb look almost real. however, it’s only when this fabric trompe l’oeil is right
under your nose that the woven texture and the stitching is visible.

vegetables by scholten and baijings

the realism is especially evident in the red stem that gradually becomes a paler in pink as
it reaches the leaf. details such as the inclusion of dark veins makes these ‘fake’ vegetables
especially convincing. the leaf curl up whimsically and slowly graduate in color from
a green to a soft yellow and, finally,  to a pastel pink. even the half-round, slightly hollowed
out form of the stalk is photorealistic.

vegetables on display
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cabbages
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cabbages

cabbage

cabbage

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artichoke

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