Designer: Lino Sabattini (1925 – 2016)

Item: Pair of Lino Sabattini Pala Spatula and Cake Server

Description: Sabattini first designed a cake shovel for Christofle in 1956 when he was the director of design there, but these are the later Pala series servers. Elegant and heavy well made objects.

Manufactured by: Sabattini Argenteria

Country of origin: Italy

Year made: 1973

Materials: Silverplate over brass

Dimensions: 13 ¾” x 2 ¾” x 5/8”

Condition: Very Good to excellent with some very minor scratching. Both signed with the correct “Sabattini” marks as shown.

References: Marelli, Enrico, Lino Sabattini: Suggestione e funzione / Intimations and Craftsmanship, Edizioni Metron, 1979; Made in Italy: 45 Jahre Design in Silber, Grassimuseum Leipzig, Germany, 1995