Ende likes playing with handles. The designers invent original shapes, as in the case of the cup with a delicate handle curved like a Mobius strip. The contrast between the handle and the rest of the cup is at the heart of the design. This may be a contrast between simplicity and complexity, like in the Mobius cups, between materials, as in the cups standing on three feet, or between tradition and surprise, where a very classic handle is added to a doll’s face.
Ende also to experiment with the overall shape of vessels, avoiding banality. Their cups have irregular, somewhat bent shapes where geometry becomes an organic form, as in the case of the slender TRIDENT cups. In a similar way, the series of vases created as Gruszecka’s graduation project are folded like origami paper.
The products designed by Ende often have unique features. Gruszecka explains:
I like it when a raw, mechanically-made piece of crockery is somehow marked by the hand of an artist – damaged, flattened, curved. Then it becomes one-of-a-kind, which I consider very valuable at a time when we are flooded with mass-produced identical items. [https://popup203.wordpress.com/2012/09/15/natalia-gruszecka/].
Ende also reinvents the traditional bottoms of cups, breaking them, for example, into three feet connected through neat arcs, as in TRIPLE cup.