Cutlery
With its clean lines and its lovely weight in the hand, Rose Uniacke’s new cutlery range takes part of its inspiration from a set of old English silver flatware that Rose has owned and loved for many years.
Like so much of Rose’s design, grounded in the beauty of long tradition, but contemporary in its simplicity, her cutlery calls on natural forms. It reminds us of liquid movement, of the way that water pools and flows. The knives have just the hint of a collar where the traditional simplicity of the stainless steel blade meets the silver handle. The feel is comfortably weighted and balanced. The little uptick at the end of the handle nestles to the palm and the whole effect is contemporary and flowing. The spoons flower, from a beautifully slender stem, into a generous bowl and the forks, three tined, rather than four, have a length and a slim elegance that lightly recall their two-pronged beginnings, back in 4th century ancient Byzantium.
The cutlery is made in Sheffield, a town famous from the fourteenth century for its knife-making, in workshops with an uninterrupted and globally recognised tradition of excellence in silver. Elegantly functional and with balanced proportions, each piece is hand-stamped, filed and polished, and designed to evolve a complex and subtly characterful patina, over time.
The tableware comes in boxes of six, the servers in boxes of two, each plated to 35 microns.