metal, photography
metal
photography
Dimensions 6 7/8 x 15/16 in. (17.46 x 2.38 cm)
This butter knife was crafted by Marion Weeber and lives in the Minneapolis Institute of Art. You know, making a butter knife isn't like slapping paint on canvas, but I bet there's still a feeling of discovery involved. I can imagine Marion at work, carefully hammering and shaping this metal, probably thinking about balance, feel, and how the light would play on the surface. The handle's got these cool, vertical lines that make you want to hold it, and the blade has this subtle curve, like it's ready to glide across a pat of butter. It's not just a butter knife; it's a little sculpture, and someone put a lot of thought into it. It reminds me that art can be anywhere, even in the things we use every day. It’s all connected, this dance of making and seeing.
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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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