Safety is of the utmost importance especially if you have little ones at home. A knife block may be an ordinary sight in a kitchen, but the Self-Locking Knife Block from Joseph Joseph is far from ordinary. It fits most standard kitchen knives but its primary feature is a child-proof mechanism that locks the knives securely into the base as they’re placed inside a slot. Pulling on a knife without pressing the release button situated on either side of the block only increases the force of the grip so knives cannot be simply forced out, ensuring that only those who know how to operate it can pull out a knife.