May 2009

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• Teak Salt & Peppers

  Nissen “Knight” Mill

  05.27.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Thanks to Teak Pepper reader Brad B for sending me these photos of a super rare, super crazy Nissen designed teak mill he recently acquired.  Although Quistgaard’s mills are often referred to as “chess piece” mills, it was actually Nissen who marketed his mills as shaped like chess pieces.  Most of them are  roughly shaped […]

• Teak Salt & Peppers

  How It’s Made: Pepper Mills

  05.23.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  How It’s Made is one of my favorite TV shows.  I like making things, and it’s great to see how things are really made  – by  people who actually know what they are doing. Their latest episode takes the viewer inside the Peugeot factory to show how they make their legendary pepper grinding mechanisms.  It’s […]

• Teak Salt & Peppers

  Filling in the Pepper Mill Collection

  05.18.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  My book Danish Pepper used Robert Chipman’s amazing illustrations as a proxy for the mills I did not have in my collection at the time I did the pepper mill photo shoot.  There were 17 mills/sets pictured.  Since then I’ve filled in my collection a bit and gotten some more information, which I want to […]

• Dansk & Quistgaard, Teak Salt & Peppers

  Happy Birthday Danish Pepper

  05.13.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  It’s been a whole year since I put in my order for the first 50 copies of the book Danish Pepper.  It seems like just yesterday. Thanks so much to all the people who purchased it over the last year and have helped support my efforts to get the word out about Jens Quistgaard and […]

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Teak Pepper is the blog of Mark Perlson, author of Danish Pepper. It is focused on collecting Jens Quistgaard and Dansk, but also covers design, politics, music, media, and other topics.

Danish Pepper Book

Mark Perlson’s book on Jens Quistgaard’s teak wood pepper mills features photos and illustrations of an amazing collection of mills. Available straight from the author for $24.99 with free US shipping. Learn More about the Danish Pepper book >

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A Saucepan for my Wife is an intimate documentary on the legendary Danish Modern designer. Comes with a 56 page booklet. Subtitled. Buy Now on Amazon >

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