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THE STORY OF THE FRUIT BRIDGE

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Agota Jonas built the first fruit bridges years ago as an industrial design student. 
She wanted to create a better fruit bowl in which fruit could stay fresh longer.
Because ethylene gas can get trapped inside a bowl, it can very much speed up the ripening process

and ruin our precious avocados before we can enjoy them. This got her thinking.

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"What if we could take a bowl and turn it inside out?"

We can certainly play with and push/pull some positive and negative shapes and test some forms
to fit the given function of holding and protecting fruit. In Agota's case, a bridge-like open shape
emerged with the simplest round patterns. Experimenting with these new fruit stands in the kitchen showed right away that her tomatoes and avocados remained fresh much longer,

so Agota started sharing the fruit bridge prototypes with her family.

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Fast forward about 20 years.

Today, Agota teaches life-centered design thinking and is busy sharing (biomimicry's) life's principles

with her design students. She is passionate about sustainability and regenerative design

and strongly believes that we can all do our part in helping save and revive our environment.

She is still using the same old fruit bridges she built long ago, and because they work so well,

she wants others to experience and enjoy them, too.

These fruit holders are made of food-grade stainless steel

and low-energy building methods: they are laser-cut, rolled, and hand-finished. 
Their form fits the intended function; most fruits have round shapes, and just as trees do,

fruit bridges hold them gently with minimum contact.
Steel is not wasted: small left-over pieces are reused for other products like tealight holders and keychains.
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