Designer: Lino Sabattini (1925 – 2016)

Item: Pala Cake Shovel

Description: Sabattini first designed a cake shovel for Christofle in 1956-63 when he was the director of design there, but this is a later rendition.  This is longer, narrower and more angular than his original design.  An elegant and well made object.  

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.  Signed “Sabattini”

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