Designer: Lino Sabattini (1925 - 2016)

Item: Cheese Server

Manufactured by: Sabattini Argenteria

Country of origin: Italy

Year made: 1973

Materials: Silverplate over brass

Dimensions:  10 ¼”” x 4 ¼” 

Condition: Very good used condition.  Some polishing marks and scratching from use.

References: Made in Italy: 45 Jahre Design in Silber, Grassimuseum Leipzig, Germany, 1995; Enrico Marelli, Lino Sabattini: Imitations and Craftsmanship, Edizioni Metron, 1979. Filippo Alison, Renato De Fusco, l'Artidesign il caso Sabattini, Electa, Napoli, 1991.

Description: A rare cheese serving and cutting implement by Sabattini.  Another great modernist interpretation for a serving piece.  There is a rounded and indented area for the thumb.  We have never seen another like it and we have been looking for a while.  It is marked Sabattini, Made in Italy with the Sabattini Argenteria cypher.