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I'll Take One Automatic Cake Decorator, Please

It's what every baker needs. If only this were a cake decorating appliance for sale at Williams-Sonoma, instead of a one of a kind art machine showcased at this year's Vienna Design Week, created by mischer'traxler.

Laboratory equipment for measuring and analyzing samples.

How it works, via Design Boom:

"A simple machine decorates the cake with lines and continuously decorates until the costumer/visitor decides to stop the decoration process. Then in a second process sugar pearls/decoration are dropped onto the glazing. The decor is continuously changing and the costumer/visitor decides whether he prefers a simple ornament or a more complex one.

When is the right time to stop?? Once the decoration machine is stopped it can not be started again.

The project reflects, on the one hand, the industry behind decoration (industrialized image vs. the romantic imagination) and on the other hand it should trigger people to think about the amount of decoration they actually like."

Diagram illustrating the process of creating a geometric design through two steps.

Elegant round cake with intricate pink icing design under a glass dome.

A woman holding a cake while wearing a pink scarf.

Pink frosted round cake held on a silver platter.

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