Cutlery set designed for the dining room of Peter Behrens' house at the Darmstadt Artists' Colony, Germany

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Cutlery set designed for the dining room of Peter Behrens' house at the Darmstadt Artists' Colony, Germany

Descriptive: Darmstadt
Germany, 1900-1901
Furnishings; Serviceware
Silver
a) Dinner knife length: 9 7/8 in. (25.08 cm); b) Dinner fork length: 8 5/8 in. (21.91 cm); c) Dinner spoon length: 8 1/2 in. (21.59 cm); d) Mocca spoon length: 5 5/8 in. (14.29 cm); e) Coffee spoon length: 4 1/2 in. (11.43 cm); f) Dessert fork length: 5 7/8 in. (14.92 cm)
Gift of Max Palevsky (M.2002.108.3a-f)
Not currently on public view

Bibliography

  • Bradbury, Dominic. Essential Modernism: Design Between the World Wars. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018.