You have asked for a curated New York Shuk gift set and we happily obliged! This year we collaborated with our friend and artist, Shino Takeda for a special edition gift set, ready to gift to any food lovers on your holiday list this year.

Our all-star best sellers; Signature Harissa, Preserved Lemon Paste, Shawarma spice, Za’atar spice and the new Signature Matbucha are packaged in a sleek gift box accompanied by a limited edition ceramic bowl and spoon by Brooklyn-based artist, Shino takeda. Inspired by our recent Matbucha product, Shino created a limited edition ‘Tomato Garden’ bowl collection for New York Shuk. See photos from our studio visit with her below.

Only a (very) limited number of these gift sets will be available, so please don’t wait on it.

About Shino Takeda:

Influenced by her upbringing in Japan and her current home in New York, Shino Takeda’s ceramics embody her sensory experience of sight, touch, taste, sound, and smell. Takeda makes her vessels using the coil method and several different clay bodies. Her ceramic pieces are glazed with bold and muted colors to create abstract designs that are charming and playful. She continually searches for “perfect imperfections” in her works, evoking ideas of wabi-sabi. Her inspirations stem from the natural world and a sense of her interior self. She consciously works to express the color of feeling in her work, producing ceramics that are at once whimsical, thoughtful and functional.

Takeda’s work is renowned in the design world; her current work is on display at The Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia and at Fort Makers Gallery in NYC.

Want to know what’s Shino’s favorite Brooklyn restaurant? Check a fun Q & A we did with her.