For our 21st birthday our Grandma offered to buy the cutlery set of our choosing. For weeks we travelled around to different department stores holding every style, feeling how they were weighted and admiring each set as its own until we found one that was perfect. Since then, we’ve had a great appreciation of cutlery.
Lining it up straight in a draw can lighten our mood, seeing an amazing new design makes us daydream and it being used for something creative usually makes us cringe but occasionally excites. Here are some of our favourites. Top Amanda McLauchlan Photography & Elise Rijnberg. Above Cutt & Michael Aram. Below Josef Hoffmann & Maarten Baptist.
Bottom Simon Walsh & Blue Leaves.
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My favorite is a timeless classic: Georg Jensen Acorn
One of these days...
My grandmother let me pick out my pattern when I was in high school. I chose the same as hers (chatelaine by Oneida) and she frequently bought me pieces until she died. I inherited all of her pieces and every time I pull a fork or a spoon out of the drawer, I am reminded of her.
I know this question has been answered before, but I searched AT and can't find the reponse. So here goes: where is that cutlery wallpaper from? Zara in the UK has similar paper if I remember correctly, but I can't seem to order it online.
When my husband and I were registering for our wedding, we did something very similar with our silverware. Being engineers, we were very analytical with picking out the right one. We picked each piece up, simulated eating with it, figured out how it would stack in the drawer, determined how it would wear down over the years, etc. The sales-people didnt know what to do with us. We choice the classic but simple Dansk Bistro Cafe. It works great for both everyday and formal eating.
http://www1.macys.com/catalog/product/index.ognc?ID=154031&CategoryID=14107&LinkType=EverGreen
When we registered for our wedding gifts, I think that our cutlery was the item we spent the most time deliberating on. My wife wanted something more interesting, but I was all about function. I don't like the ones with odd shapes to the part that picks up the food/goes into the mouth... or hard to hold handles.
We ended up with the Spinnaker by Nambe. It has nice heft (and doesn't bend in ice cream!) and it's more interesting than many sets without being difficult to use. And it's nice enough to use for both everyday and formal. But it does take up a lot of space in the silverware drawer because they don't stack too well...
That flatware wallpaper, if I remember correctly, would cost me my first-born child. Oh, the temptation!
It can be purchased at Anthropologie for a measly $620.
But we all know Anthropologie's prices are a joke anyhow...
which one did you end up picking?
good question misslyss- we went with Robert Welch's Deta Bright. Oh, its sooo beautiful!
Gourmet at C&B is a fine choice.
My favorite is one that my mom started collecting in her youth, and someday hope to have a set of my own. It's Georg Jensen's Blue Shark, from 1965. It's stainless steel, so it was just the flatware we used for everyday, but I remember having friends (even when I was a kid) remark on how cool they are. I love the idea of having something so different and well-designed be the stuff of everyday instead of living in a box until special occasions.