Nice Racks! 10 High, Dry & Handsome Dish Drainers

Geo Dish Drainer

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Tales from topographic kitchens? Yes! The Geo Dish Drainer by Royal VKB is as near to a rackless rack as one can get – in fact, it’s already there. Jorre van Ast’s “drain mat”, as it were, was inspired by geographical contour lines and graphic altitude levels as depicted on 2D maps. Available in gray or blue, simply pile on wet dishes and let the drained water find its own level, which happens to be the drain spout in one of the mat’s corners.

Dish Doctor Dish Rack

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The Dish Doctor dishrack designed by Marc Newson for Magis may look a little like an alien porcupine (or the spaceship it arrived in) but there’s a method to the madness: the spiky design holds dishes of varying amounts in no set arrangement – it all depends on the infrastructure of the meal. Made of sturdy polypropylene plastic, the rack features two-piece construction that can rest anywhere on the counter to be drained at the user’s convenience.

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The Dish Doctor comes in both glossy and translucent colors, some of which are unexpected to say the least:
orange with bright green tips on the spikes? It’s not often one’s dish drainer becomes the focus of the kitchen but thanks to a house call from The Dish Doctor, this is one of those times.

SPLAT Dish Rack

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The SPLAT Rack from Jill Davis Design is a space-saving dish draining rack that actually looks too good to keep tucked away in a kitchen drawer when it’s not needed.

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Jillian Davis’ design is engineered for ease of manufacture via standard die-cutting or more specialized laser-cutting. As complex as it may appear, the SPLAT RACK quickly collapses in on itself – a pretty neat trick as it morphs from three dimensions to just two!

Verte Drain Modular Dish Drainer

Nice Racks! 10 High, Dry & Handsome Dish Drainers(images via: Yanko Design)

The Verte Drain Modular Dish Drainer is the brainchild of Sarah Brayshaw (below), an up-and-coming young designer whose need to be creative begins at home and with herself. If you can fit a round peg in a round hole, then you won’t find the Verte Drain Modular Dish Drainer too much of a challenge.

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Simply add components such as plate-holding pegs, a utensil-holder, a vertebrae-like flatware & tumbler rack (or all of the above) as required. Your dinner looks different every night (hopefully), so why shouldn’t your dish drainer?

High&Dry Dish Drainer by Black+Blum

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No need to beat yourself black & blue looking for “The Perfect Dish Drainer” when Dan Black and Martin Blum have got just the thing: the High&Dry Dish Drainer! Inspired by architecture and available in your choice of lime, sage or white, Black+Blum designed the High&Dry Dish Drainer to be as flexible as it’s fashionable – it folds flat for easy storage.

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Unlike most other designer dish drainers, the High&Dry features a flip-up spout that accommodates users who position it near the sink for water drainage or farther away in case they’d like to recycle the water for houseplants. This is some green machine… even if you don’t order one in lime or sage.