I’ve had good luck over the years finding stainless steel designs by Arne Jacobsen. In fact, one of the greatest finds of my life, was an impressive 14 person set of Jacobsen “AJ” flatware (original A. Michelsen manufactured-not the later production by Georg Jensen) This flatware may be best known for its cameo appearance in Stanley Kubrick’s classic, “2001: A Space Odyssey”, but it makes any table look great.
Each place setting (in the set I found) consists of a dinner knife, 2 dinner spoons, dinner fork, salad fork, and soup spoon. The set also includes @ 20 demitasse spoons, several incredibly cool left handed soup spoons and 4 large serving pieces.
At the same sale, I also scored two nice sets of Iittala glasses, (Ultima Thule by Tapio Wirkkala and Festivo by Timo Sarpaneva) which on a normal day would have made me happy in and of themselves. On that day, they were just a littala bonus. All of it, an amazing $90.00
I actually called my wife on the cell phone after getting far enough away from the yard sale, that the seller couldn’t have me arrested for grand larceny, and told her that it was “the best day of my life.” She still gives me a hard time about that-rightfully so
Several years before the flatware, I found a Jacobsen, cylinda line ice bucket/wine cooler by Stelton for a few dollars.
This past weekend, a large cylida line revolving ashtray for $5.00 at the Greenport “Op Shop”. Inside were three Italian carved briar pipes which I threw into a desk drawer and will research next weekend. If the person had enough foresight to by a well designed ashtray, perhaps the pipes are good too?
What I covet most these days, is a cylinda line coffee/tea service to display on my living room credenza. Cost, unfortunately, is prohibitive. I guess I’m going to have to hope that I get lucky and that the Jacobsen stainless steel gods continue to smile upon me.
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