By Dominick & Haff
Located in Big Bend, WI
Monumental Contempora by Dominck and Haff sterling silver flatware set of 116 pieces. This rare set includes:
Eight dinner knives, 9 3/8"
Eight dinner forks, 7 3/4"
Eight regular knives, 8 3/8"
Eight regular forks, 7 1/8"
Eight salad forks, 6 1/8"
Eight teaspoons, 5 7/8"
Eight cream soup spoons, 5 7/8"
Eight place soup spoons, 7 1/8"
Eight flat handle butter spreaders, 6 1/2"
Eight cocktail forks, 5 3/8"
Eight iced tea spoons, 7 3/8"
Eight bouillon soup spoons, 5 1/8"
Eight demitasse spoons, 4 3/8"
One gravy ladle, 6"
Two serving spoons, 8 1/2"
One cold meat fork, 8 5/8"
One sugar spoon, 6"
One roast carving set, three-piece, Kn-14 5/8", Fk-11 3/8", and hone - 13 1/4"
One steak carving set, two-piece, Kn-11 1/8" & Fk-9 1/2"
One cake server with stainless blade, 10"
One sugar tongs, 4".
Includes bonus brand new flatware storage chest.
Excellent condition, with no monograms. This set will be beautifully professionally polished prior to shipping. Stunning!
This exceptional service was designed by noted Finnish-born architectnoted Finnish-born architectnoted Finnish-born architect Eliel Saarinen in 1927 for "The Architect and the Industrial Arts," the Metropolitan Museum of Art's eleventh exhibition of contemporary American design. The museum requested that all furnishings and accessories for a room be included, stipulating that no object could be in current production. For the exhibit, Saarinen created a dining room complete with four new patterns of flatware, including "Contempora." The "Contempora" flatware prototype was made by Dominick & Haff and featured a place setting in an Art Deco Chrysler...
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Mid-20th Century Dominick & Haff Tableware