Kitchen Gadgets Pick

Carved Mango Wood Pedestal Fruit Bowl, Black

A footed bowl that lifts fruit off the counter and reads as a centerpiece rather than as storage. It measures 12 inches across and 3.5 inches deep, which holds enough for a household of four or five without the fruit at the bottom getting forgotten. The bowl is turned from solid mango wood and finished flat black, and the outside wall is carved with narrow vertical grooves all the way around so the rim band catches light in a way a plain bowl does not. It sits on a contrasting pedestal foot left in natural wood, and that two tone break is what stops it looking like a salad bowl. Each one is made by hand, so the carving is never quite identical. The finish is food safe, so it works for fruit, for candy, or as a key bowl by the door.

What you're getting

• 12 inches across and 3.5 inches deep, enough for a household of four or five
• Turned from solid mango wood and finished flat black
• Outside wall carved with narrow vertical grooves all the way around
• Contrasting natural wood pedestal foot lifts the bowl off the counter
• Food safe finish, so it works for fruit, candy or keys by the door

Why we picked it

A fruit bowl either becomes a centerpiece or it becomes clutter, and the pedestal is what decides which. Lifting the bowl a few inches separates it from whatever else is on the counter and gives it a shadow, so it reads as an object rather than as a container that happens to be there. The two tone break between the black bowl and the natural foot does the same job a second time. It is handmade, so the carving varies bowl to bowl.