Material: porcelain, silver, cotton/ Manufactured by Joris' laboratory / sales@jorislaarman.com

To eat, to vomit and to eat more without the annoyance of a stuffed stomach: It is not a new phenomenon. It was not uncommon for the courtesy of roman civilization (400 until 500 AD) to retreat (while the dinner was at full steam) and vomit in a so-called vommitorium, so that they could finish their feast with reborn appetite. The Romans however only desired to save their appetite but twenty first century man also desires beautiful contours. His obsessions with health and far fetched beauty ideals have to reconcile to excessive eating pleasure. The battle between excess and abstinence does not only lead to diets, liposuction and the use of fat burning apparatus but also to 'logical' excesses of anorexia nervosa and bulimia. All those excesses we have banned to the back doors of our sense of shame. Yet they belong more to our normal way of life then we probably would expect. This porcelain vomit bowl, silver evoker and napkin are a result of our new decadence.