Art nouveau knives forks and spoons Inventory Catalogue of the Deutsches Klingenmuseum Solingen

The basic tenet of Jugendstil (German Art Nouveau) was to "suffuse all areas of life with art". This also applied to objects in everyday use.
The German Blade Museum boasts the world's biggest cutlery collection. Vol. I of the Museum catalogue presents "Jugendstil Cutlery" in all its diversity. Silver, silver-plate and other materials were used for this cutlery, most of it made in Germany. The collection comprises more than 300 patterns, which are arranged here by purely formal criteria to reveal the enormous variety of forms and decoration. No other era produced such a diversity of decorative designs and this is the first ever publication to deal with it. All known makers and designers as well as anonymous factory designs for patterns are represented in this collection.
The Deutsches Klingenmuseum in Solingen has one of the world's largest cutlery collections. The present book is devoted to "Jugendstil cutlery" in all its diversity of design, shape and form. These knives, forks, spoons and serving pieces are made of silver, silver plate and a great variety of other materials. More than 300 patterns are represented, classified here according to visual criteria. The reader has an overview of all aspects of form and decoration.
The book is furnished with an exhaustive list of marks covering all cutlery illustrated. The definitive handbook for cutlery collectors and designers.