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Pott 36 Flatware Set

c. 1982

by Carl Pott
for Pott Flatware

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The Pott 36 Flat­ware Set by Carl Pott isn’t merely silver­ware; it’s a quiet master­class in German indus­trial design. Created in 1982, this collec­tion is a defin­i­tive study in how a tiny archi­tec­tural detail can define an entire tablescape.

While the design is decades old, its mini­mal­ist geom­e­try keeps it perpet­u­ally current, fitting seam­lessly into a modern apart­ment or a rigor­ously tradi­tional dining room. The flat­ware under­lines the uncom­pro­mis­ing elegance synony­mous with the Pott name.

Avail­able in both a five-piece and twenty-piece set, the Pott 36 is the kind of collec­tion that you invest in, under­stand­ing that you are acquir­ing not just uten­sils, but a piece of func­tional design history.

Artist Carl Pott
Carl pott portrait

Carl Pott

Germany

The true design legacy of Pott flatware began in 1932, when Carl Pott joined his father's (Carl Hugo Pott) workshop and immediately established his reputation as a brilliant, uncompromising flatware designer. Rejecting the decorative flourishes of his era, Pott stripped cutlery down to a functionalist ideal, treating design as meticulous, surgical calculation. This commitment quickly earned him recognition on a grand scale: in the 1950s, Pott flatware was chosen for the initial flatware of Deutsche Lufthansa passenger machines, and his Pott 22 pattern (designed 1955) achieved global icon status as the official flatware for the 1972 Olympic Village in Munich. Carl Pott's work is celebrated as a high-water mark of modern and mid-century functionalism, proving that true simplicity possesses lasting, official weight.

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