metal, photography
metal
photography
decorative-art
Dimensions 5 7/8 x 1 5/16 in. (14.92 x 3.33 cm)
This small serving spoon, by Marion Weeber, is one of a group of silver utensils. Look how they sit here in a row! When I see this piece I think about process; it's all about labor, isn’t it? The artist starts with one material but then through a whole series of actions and interventions ends up somewhere completely different. Silver is interesting because of its reflective qualities. When I look at it I think about how it reflects light. It’s not just about the final outcome, but the journey of transformation. I wonder what Weeber was thinking as they made this? Were they just doing a commission, or were they thinking about the way light and shadow might play across its surface? It has a kind of quietness about it, yet it speaks volumes about the human impulse to shape and refine the world around us. It feels like a simple gesture but holds so much more.
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Marion Weeber was an independent American industrial designer who attended the progressive art school run by the Art Students League of New York. She worked for several prestigious firms including Cartier, Ekco, and Samuel Kirk & Son, but eventually opened her own design firm in Manhattan in 1939. She holds over twenty-five patents for her innovative and inventive designs. "Classic Column" is perhaps the most storied of Weeber's fifty-plus flatware designs. It was selected by the U.S. Commission for Design Excellence for the American Pavilion at the 1967 International and Universal Exposition in Montreal. Precise and polished geometric forms reflect an American industrial aesthetic, exemplifying the forward-looking image the United States wished to present to the world.
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