Modern butter knife with cool folded handle design rethinks one of the most overlooked objects on the breakfast table.

Oku Butter Knife designed by Kathleen Reilly introduces classic Japanese sophistication to the dining environment.

Innovative folded spine lifts the butter knife off the table surface, so the handle rests on a wooden board while the blade hovers above.

Oku Butter Knife made in Tsubame-Sanjo of Niigata Prefecture, an area with over 400 years of metalworking expertise.

Stainless-steel blade is smooth and rounded, designed for spreading rather than cutting. It glides across butter with precision.

Place the butter knife on the Oku board and the contrast becomes part of the experience: cool satin metal resting on beautiful Japanese wood.

Instead of lying flat, Oku Butter Knife lifts itself from the table, hovering slightly above the surface.

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