OXO International | People | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

In 1989, Sam Farber, former CEO of the cookware manufacturer Copco, decided to establish the kitchen utensil manufacturer OXO International, inspired by his arthritic wife’s difficulty gripping a potato peeler. Farber considered many kitchen tools to be “functional disasters” and contemplated what could be done for his wife and the more than 20 million Americans with arthritis.[1] He noted that, even for the average user, “ordinary kitchen tools hurt your hands, with painful scissor loops... [and] hard skinny handles.”[2] Farber wondered: if you made comfortable tools, wouldn’t everybody use them? [1] Corporate Design Foundation, "Getting a Grip on Kitchen Tools," @issue Journal 2, no. 1... more.

We have 30 objects that OXO International has been involved with.

A measuring spoon set with four black spoons of different sizes, each with a circular colored label indicating its measurement, red for a quarter teaspoon, dark blue for a half teaspoon, green for one teaspoon and yellow for one tablespoon. The measurements are printed on each spoon in white inside the corresponding colored circle, and all the spoons are held together on a black plastic ring.

OXO International has collaborated with
Tucker Viemeister and
Davin Stowell and
Smart Design, Inc. and
Daniel Formosa and
Stephen Russak and
Stephen Allendorf and
Michael Calahan and
Jürgen Laub and
Stephen Wahl and
Sam Farber

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