01 — Kitchen
Kitchen & Chef
Balanced, keen, and built for daily work. The knives now on the pass at some of South Africa’s best kitchens.
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Anton Kock · Maker
The Maker
Thirty years in logistics. Then a knife for his son.
Anton Kock made his first blade as a birthday gift for his son’s fourteenth. When the company he’d worked at for nearly three decades closed its doors in 2020, that hobby became the whole plan.
With YouTube as his only teacher, he taught himself to forge. Five years on, his knives sit on the pass at La Colombe and Salsify, in home kitchens across South Africa, and in collections around the world.
A knife should feel less like a tool and more like an extension of the hand that holds it.
Every commission starts with a conversation — the work, the hand, the way it’ll be used — so the finished blade fits its owner and no one else. It’s slow work, and Anton won’t send out anything that isn’t right. That’s the whole business.
~30
Years before the forge
2020
First blade sold
1
Pair of hands, every knife
