Stelton
| Stelton A / S
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| legal form | Aktieselskab |
| founding | 1960 |
| Seat |
 Denmark , Copenhagen
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| management | Michael Ring |
| Website | www.stelton.dk |
Stelton ( Stelton A / S ) is a Danish company based in Copenhagen that makes household items and tableware. The manufacturer's products are in the upper price segment.
Company history
Stelton was founded in Hellerup in 1960 as a trading company to sell sports shoes and furniture. At the beginning of the sixties a sauce boat was produced in cooperation with the manufacturer Danish Stainless , which sold better than shoes and furniture.
In 1963 Peter Holmblad became the company's export manager. He came up with the idea of persuading his stepfather, the well-known Danish architect and designer Arne Jacobsen, to design a series of dishes made of stainless steel ("stainless steel"). Jacobsen created the Cylinda Line / Cylinder Line from highly polished stainless steel . Since Jacobsen's designs required new pressing and welding tools, Stelton was forced to first invest in new manufacturing machines. Cylinder Line was launched in 1967 and has won several awards, including the International Design Award from the American Institute of Interior Designers and the Danish ID Prize . The series initially consisted of 18 parts. Arne Jacobsen designed new products for the Cylinder Line until his death in 1971 .
For the 50th company anniversary in 2010, the tableware series was reinterpreted by Paul Smith with the help of colored accents.
From 1976 Erik Magnussen also worked for Stelton. Among other things, he designed the Skibs lamp made of stainless steel and glass and the now classic Termokande (thermos flask) LS 900, which was originally intended to complement the Cylinder line . It was made of stainless steel or plastic, the then new acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene copolymer (ABS). The plastic jugs were initially only available in clear, bright colors, but now they are also available in matt colors and in gold and silver gloss.
Stelton products regularly win awards for good design. In recent years, Klaus Rath's designs in particular have received a large number of awards.
Stelton has received three industrial design awards from the Danish Society for Industrial Design. Many Stelton products can be found in museums today, for example in the Museum of Modern Art and the Cooper Hewitt Museum in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art , the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Die Neue Sammlung in Munich and the Design Museum Danmark in Copenhagen .
Peter Holmblad, the former export manager from 1963, was the boss and owner of the company from the late 1970s to 2004. He has been a member of the Supervisory Board since 2004. In February 2005 Michael Ring, who came from Georg Jensen , took over the management of the company.
photos
Ship lamp
Cylinder Line ice tongs
Thermos flask LS 900 in plastic and stainless steel
literature
- Skandinavisk design . Taschen GmbH, Cologne 2002.
Individual evidence
- ↑ A & W Special, Scandinavian Design 4/2008
- ↑ designer Peter Holmblad. Retrieved October 2, 2009 .
- ^ Bent Højgaard Sørensen: Nyt liv i Stelton. (No longer available online.) February 3, 2005, formerly in the original ; Retrieved October 2, 2009 (Danish). ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Steltons web presence. Retrieved October 2, 2009 (Danish, German, unknown language, English).