Pleasure and quality for more than 160 years
Your lay our hands on it every day, and on a well-laid table, it whets your appetite to enjoy your food: yes, it‘s cutlery. WMF shares some interesting facts about material, design and setting the table in a classic way.
The perfectly laid table
Where does the bread plate go, where do you put the water glass and where does the fish knife go? WMF shows you how to lay your table perfectly.
From design of the times to utmost individuality
Cutlery always mirrors the zeitgeist. Since 1853, WMF has taken this inspiration and turned it into products for everyday use.
For more power at your fingertips
Geislingen has produced cutlery since 1853. It also started in the bourgeois 19th century with elaborate models in baroque or classical forms such as Spaten and Augsburger Faden. With the Art Nouveau movement and the founding of the WMF design studio starting in 1890, designs were created which reflected the style of the times. The Fächer model (1925) combines elements of different styles with those of Art Nouveau. The model 2500, which appeared at the start of the 1930s, was a bold vision of the future.
Straightforward and somewhat more extravagant, New York was the embodiment of the spirit of the 1960s and Brasilia the style of the 1970s. The hit of the 1980s was Onda, designed by Franz O. Lipp, while Virginia dominated the 1990s.
Today, WMF’s continuing cooperation with prominent creatives is still consistently resulting in unique cutlery – like Zaha by star architect Zaha Hadid or Jette by jewellery designer Jette Joop.
