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dragonflywink Posts: 993 |
posted 04-05-2007 12:33 PM
  
Pottery Barn sold the Fiddlehead stainless for many years, it's one of the patterns that has a nice value in the secondary market. ~Cheryl IP: Logged |
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Dale Posts: 2132 |
posted 04-05-2007 07:39 PM
The name of the pattern is treble clef. It seems to be a musical homage. IP: Logged |
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Dale Posts: 2132 |
posted 04-05-2007 09:12 PM
The southwestern patterns, for the hits they have taken here, sort of strike me as interesting. These are not meant to be seen in isolation; they come with china etc. to create an ensemble on the tabletop. Very Eastlake, using mass produced items to create a personal look. Here is some china, place mats etc that would go with the Southwestern patterns. IP: Logged |
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ahwt Posts: 2334 |
posted 04-05-2007 10:56 PM
My wife confirmed Cheryl's observation that the first time this pattern was on the market Pottery Barn sold it under the Fiddlehead name. It appears that a revival of a kind has happened with this design and it is now sold under the treble clef name. Intellectual property concerns or issues may have played a part in the name change. IP: Logged |
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Dale Posts: 2132 |
posted 04-06-2007 12:26 AM
Random weirdess: (WebMD) People with advanced Alzheimer's disease eat and drink more when they're served with brightly colored plates, cups, and silverware, according to Massachusetts researchers. The finding comes from researchers including Tracy Dunne, PhD, former postdoctoral fellow at Boston University's Gerontology Center and the Geriatric Research and Education Clinical Center of the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Bedford, Mass. Significant weight loss affects 40 percent of people with severe Alzheimer's disease. Depression and eating difficulties have been viewed as possible explanations, but a recent study suggests that vision problems might be a factor. The ability to see colors diminishes with age, and people with Alzheimer's often have a hard time seeing contrast, which can make it tough to distinguish "a plate from a table setting, food from a plate, or liquid from its container (e.g., milk from a white cup)," say the researchers. The study is published in the recent issue of the journal Clinical Nutrition. Dunne and colleagues studied nine elderly men with advanced Alzheimer's disease. The men were on average 83 years old and scored 3 out of 30 on mental status exams. The researchers measured how much each participant ate daily. Then the men were served meals on white plates, white cups, and stainless-steel silverware for 10 days. Next, they used bright red tableware and cutlery for 10 days. The men ate about 24 percent more food and drank almost 84 percent more liquid with the red tableware compared with the white tableware. Similar results came from tests conducted one year later with five original and four new participants. This time brightly colored blue tableware prompted the men to eat 25 percent more food and drink almost 30 percent more liquid compared with white and stainless-steel settings. Afterward, the men returned to white and stainless-steel tableware. More than half of the participants ate slightly more (about 10 percent) than before the test, indicating that the effect of the colored environment may have carried over. Contrast appears to be the key, not color. Pastel-shaded red and blue tableware, which created less contrast, had little or no impact. Calling their findings "encouraging," the researchers suggest that caregivers consider using high-contrast tableware to help people with advanced Alzheimer's disease view their environment and help them eat and drink better. SOURCES: Dunne, T. Clinical Nutrition, August 2004; vol 23: pp 533-538. News release, Boston University. IP: Logged |
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outwest Posts: 390 |
posted 04-06-2007 01:50 AM
These are all nice. I particularly like the first one. I makes me want to buy another set of stainless. The thing I've liked about the silver I have is that silver has such interesting patterns. As someone else said, stainless is usually so boring. Korea has made the best stainless lately. IP: Logged |
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Dale Posts: 2132 |
posted 04-06-2007 08:34 PM
Here's a pattern called Las Vegas. It is an almost Victorian type of novelty design. IP: Logged |
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Dale Posts: 2132 |
posted 04-06-2007 08:45 PM
Resin handles, familiar to us from the 1880's onwards, seem to play a large role in today's stainless market. The pieces are bright and colorful. They also adapt the ferrules used in previous times. Some of the sets are quite ambitious, having soup ladles. They are also not particularly expensive. IP: Logged |
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Dale Posts: 2132 |
posted 04-06-2007 08:50 PM
Some familiar looking designs. I am beginning to suspect that the reason certain companies don't object to use of their old patterns is that they are making money from the new. IP: Logged |
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Dale Posts: 2132 |
posted 04-06-2007 08:54 PM
A new stainless pattern named Vintage. Grapes, of course. IP: Logged |
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Dale Posts: 2132 |
posted 04-09-2007 10:49 PM
Some interesting holloware. First a wine bottle holder in the shape of a cow. Interestingly it is hand made. A juicer who sort of looks like it should be ripping up Tokyo. A punch bowl, which may be a commercial piece. A very graceful teapot. An actual, interesting tea set. IP: Logged |
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Paul Lemieux Posts: 1792 |
posted 04-09-2007 11:40 PM
Here are a few I like: Christofle "Intégrale" Georg Jensen "Prisme" Georg Jensen "Arne Jacobsen" Georg Jensen "Jean Nouvel" ----- This implement isn't my favorite design, but it's something that I actually use. It is a combination spoon (the bowl is concave), fork, and knife (one edge is sharp-ish, like a butter knife). I have a set of 12 in a box from the 1967 Montreal Expo. The items are stamped "expo67/3inOne/ashoka". They're kind of handy actually. IP: Logged |
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Dale Posts: 2132 |
posted 04-15-2007 02:35 PM
This is a very old form, used in Victorian times by travelers etc. It is now called 'tastemate' and comes with a clip to hold it on an apron. IP: Logged |
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Dale Posts: 2132 |
posted 04-15-2007 02:39 PM
This one is called 'Tears' which does not seem like a propitious name for a wedding registry. Then we have another rerun, not sure if it is Buttercup or the other one: Mixed metal, at least this is described as copper plated: IP: Logged |
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Dale Posts: 2132 |
posted 04-15-2007 02:41 PM
Here is something that I expect is very new in the flatware world. A pattern that mixes and matches traditional designs in each place setting. It is called 'Hotel' and made by a US firm, one of the traditional ones. IP: Logged |
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Dale Posts: 2132 |
posted 04-15-2007 02:44 PM
These are hand made stainless wine bottle holders, retailing for under $100. They look like 'art for the table' to me. IP: Logged |
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Dale Posts: 2132 |
posted 04-15-2007 02:47 PM
Arts and Crafts type bread knives: IP: Logged |
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middletom Posts: 467 |
posted 04-15-2007 02:59 PM
Dale, The flatware you show as being simplified Shreve & Co. "XIV Century" is actually based more directly upon ONC's Crusader pattern. Our Crusader was, quite obviously, drawn from the Shreve pattern, though at the time I started with ONC the story that I heard about the origins of Crusader were that it was based on pieces made by a Greek silversmith. The stainless copy is a result of a previous manager licensing the stainless company to reproduce some of our patterns in stainless, without the permission of the owner of ONC. Rather than get into a litigious situation, they have allowed that to continue, though without any encouragement. The biggest mistake in this situation, we've been told, is the stainless patterns have been given the same names as the sterling ones, something that should not be done. IP: Logged |
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Dale Posts: 2132 |
posted 04-15-2007 03:32 PM
If it is any comfort Tom, the names for these patterns do not appear to be very stable. I keep finding the same pattern under different names as I research. It seems the retailers like to give their very own name, and imply that it is exclusive to them, to all sorts of patterns. What I seem to see here is that the retailers are increasingly in control of the production. The makers just push the flatware out. And designers seem to be increasingly important. On a lot of these, I could not figure out who the maker is from the selling text. So, probably this is being sold under several names by now. Cold comfort I know. IP: Logged |
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Paul Lemieux Posts: 1792 |
posted 04-15-2007 05:24 PM
One of the trends is for popular fashion designers to spread their tentacles into the world of decorative home wares. Huge brands like Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, and Kate Spade are making stainless flatware, among other things. I feel the same way about the flatware I found online by these makers as I feel about their clothes/accessories: boring and safe. Here's "Burton" by Calvin Klein And "Aston" by Ralph Lauren I'm underwhelmed. Hermes is also in the home ware business. They own the French crystal house, Saint-Louis, and also make home products like dinnerware under their own name. In their boutiques, they sell a stainless line called "Attelage". It is their well-known horse-bit motif which reflects the house's origins as a saddlery company. I like the figural design, but it feels a little awkward in the hand. IP: Logged |
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Paul Lemieux Posts: 1792 |
posted 04-15-2007 11:35 PM
There is now a trend of using so-called "alternate metals" for various hollowware and flatware items (mostly items appropriate for entertaining, such as serving utensils, chip & dip bowls, cake stands, etc.). Alternate metals basically include items that are not silver or silverplate (e.g., steel and other miscellaneous alloys), and they are sold in higher-end department stores. Companies like Michael Aram and Mariposa produce these wares. They are usually more whimsical than formal. Michael Aram's items tend to be nature-inspired figurals made from steel and/or bronze, and Mariposa's are often sea or marine-life related, made from an aluminum alloy. These items are appealing to consumers because they are considered handmade and interesting, yet they're far cheaper than their figural silver and silverplate counterparts, and also, they require little or no polishing and make popular wedding and hostess gifts. The examples below are only a couple hundred dollars or less. Because they are not mass marketable, similar items in sterling are really mostly made by higher-end houses such as Buccellati, and these are many thousands of dollars each. I don't usually find alternate metal wares to be top quality, but the growing marketplace for these items just goes to show how metalware consumers' tastes are changing...from silver and silverplate to aluminum and steel. Two Michael Aram dishes: Mariposa bowl: IP: Logged |
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Dale Posts: 2132 |
posted 04-15-2007 11:59 PM
More Michael Aram. In aluminum: In stainless with bronze and gold plate: Stainless with colored aluminium: In stainless: IP: Logged |
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Dale Posts: 2132 |
posted 04-16-2007 12:44 AM
Gorham is getting into the act also. Here is a fish set with servers, some AFAIK, has not been seen in popularly priced flatware for a century.
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Dale Posts: 2132 |
posted 04-19-2007 10:46 PM
Michael Aran lives and works in India. His offerings are supposedly influenced by this. Here are some more. A tray in his coral pattern:
A bowl in Neptune: IP: Logged |
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Dale Posts: 2132 |
posted 04-19-2007 10:50 PM
A pair of vases called Man/Woman: A bowl in Mermaid: A not very functional appearing salt and pepper set: IP: Logged |
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Dale Posts: 2132 |
posted 04-19-2007 10:50 PM
I find this design sort of creepy. It is called Bones. IP: Logged |
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Dale Posts: 2132 |
posted 05-06-2007 07:20 PM
Some more items that are currently available in popular priced metal tableware. It appears that stainless is the metal of choice for flatware. But for holloware pewter and aluminum seem to be the main items. A toast rack: A traditional spoon warmer form enlarged and made into an icebucket: A mixed metal salt and pepper: IP: Logged |
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Dale Posts: 2132 |
posted 05-07-2007 12:07 AM
These two are from South Africa, but sold by the Chinese: IP: Logged |
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FWG Posts: 845 |
posted 05-07-2007 12:20 PM
Dale, can you provide a keyword, phrase or something from the original website to help me find that Bones pattern? I've tried searching every combination I could think of with no luck. I work with some faunal and osteology specialists who would appreciate it. Thanks, IP: Logged |
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Kimo Posts: 1627 |
posted 05-08-2007 03:09 PM
I just did a quick search and found them quickly. Search on the two words boneware and serving. IP: Logged |
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doc Posts: 728 |
posted 05-09-2007 09:57 AM
This is a rather unusual set made by a small company here in Maine. They use crushed mussel shells in the handles. They also offer a line with crushed lobster shells or Deer Isle granite (which is a lovely gray and pink granite). The creation process is quite labor intensive (the process to create each piece takes 8 days) but I think they are very unusual.
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