Product Details:

• Metal cutlery and tableware sourced in Italy, Scandanavia, UK and Central Europe housed in frames sourced from the former Austro-Hungarian Empire from the first half of the XX century.

• Metal cutlery and tableware dates span from the late XIX to mid XX century. Materials include nickel silver, aluminum, iron and silver-plated alloys

• Frames sourced from the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, strictly originals all dating back to the first half of the XX century.

• Frame made from wood with crumbling, ornate details in stucco

• Glass: No

• Backdrops: More recent: cut from metal sheets that served as billboard mounts. These are sourced from Italy and range between 30 and 50 years of age.

• Dimensions: Height 37cm X Width 31cm X Depth 5cm

• All products have undergone cleaning and when needed slight restoration aimed at maintaining the condition in which they are found. The aim of All”Origine is to stay as much as possible true to its original state.

• Background: “Create is a verb that sounds pretentious to us and has made its way out from our vocabulary. Another verb we have started having a hard time with is invent. Even patents are not necessarily reflective of who and where actually first came up with an invention or idea: it would be rather silly to claim that Frame forks were invented by All’Origine. What we can say is that our art director Corina Jucan started making compositions with antique frames and cutlery almost 10 years ago. To this day three characteristics make our Framforks unique: the vast number of frames Jucan can choose from, the immense number of cutlery pieces she has access to and her exquisite talent to make perfect matches between frames and cutlery. - All’Origine

All’Origne is the leading Italian specialist in European objects of the XX century ranging from artisanal craft objects for common household use, to rural and industrial artifacts. All the objects that they select are original and for the vast majority datable between 1940’s and 1960’s. With a profound love for old objects, they have a widespread collective network of pickers who spend the year traveling all around Europe sourcing products. Background research is done on every typology of object collected and that knowledge is shared and spread as much as possible.

“ Old objects resonate with me much more than new ones. I wouldn’t say I have any kind of prejudice towards new objects, they are just more silent to me. Old things make me feel connected with my childhood, they bring my memory back to my grandparents’ house. I’ve really been surrounded by old stuff my whole life. I see them as more unique, more special. And when they break you can mend them if you know how and the patch will blend in, while with new stuff it doesn’t work. A mend will stick out like a sore thumb. See I’m wearing secondhand clothes and (though it may disgust you) yes, my shoes are second hand too. I’m not saying I don’t like your white sneakers though; I would totally buy a pair like yours if they were provided to me with the right degree of wear and tear. [...] I do value elegance a lot. A certain kind of elegance at least. Not the freshly-ironed-dress kind of elegance. I would not know how to define it, but that particular type of elegance which I aspire to is something that can and should be applied to all the aspects a person’s life: in the way of speaking, of handling situations, of dressing, moving, styling one’s home and beyond!” — All’Origine’s art director Corina Jucan