H-Cut by Barış Gün

The Series

Boards made to be used and shared

Barış Gün designed a group of wooden cutting-boards which can also be used as serving platters. The pieces move easily between preparation and the table, so the same object carries the food from the kitchen to the guests.

H-Cut sits alongside the other designs of the Atlas collection, which translates Mesopotamian knowledge and aesthetics to our times. Every piece is produced by hand by women in Harran, including local and Syrian women, at the ADEM (Family Support Centre) within the Governorship of Harran.

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The H-Cut series sits within the wider Atlas Harran Design Collection as a quiet study in usefulness and warmth. These wooden cutting boards are shaped to move easily between preparation and the table, so the same piece carries food from the kitchen to the guests without ceremony. There is an honesty in that gesture: an object made to be handled, washed, worn, and shared rather than admired from a distance. In a collection that translates Mesopotamian knowledge and aesthetics into our times, such everyday tools feel entirely at home, since the region's long story is one of craft tied closely to hospitality.

Material and form carry the collection's broader conversation about place and memory. Wood, cut and finished with care, brings a living texture into the home, one that ages alongside the people who use it. The boards reference a long lineage of making in the plains of Harran, where civilizations settled and layered their knowledge into daily life. Rather than reproducing ornament, the series lets that inheritance appear in proportion, grain, and the simple confidence of a well-made surface. It is a contemporary translation, speaking to present-day tables while keeping older rhythms of craft gently present.

Behind the pieces stands a design economy that values the people who make them, with the work handmade by women in Harran and connected to a wider discussion of sustainability and social meaning. Curated with attention to how global design conversations meet local skill, the collection treats craft as a living practice rather than a fixed tradition. Each board invites a small ritual of serving and sharing, carrying forward themes of hospitality and abundance that run through the Atlas story. In this way the series remains both practical and reflective, a useful object with roots that reach further than the kitchen.