This Dansk Pitcher Has World-Famous Good Looks

Back in March when Food items52 launched a one particular-off vintage Dansk fall, some of the most coveted objects were being the pitchers in neat teal, chili purple, and even a exceptional kumquat. There ended up only five whole, which implies they bought out in a snap. But there is good news for all people of you that did not get your fingers on a person. An archival reissue of the legendary pitcher is now available—and there are lots to go around!

The Købenstyle pitcher, which was initially unveiled in 1955, is often one particular of the initially vintage Dansk pieces people today get to for and get thrilled about due to the fact it is so iconically Dansk. “It’s nevertheless sought-just after in vintage shops and on the internet, from eBay to 1stDibs, and when the Los Angeles County Museum of Art introduced its approaching display, Scandinavian Design and style and the United States, the Købenstyle pitcher was front and centre,” suggests Christine Muhlke, Foods52’s Dansk archivist.

A great deal of the pitcher’s enduring recognition is many thanks to its strong but tasteful style: the brightly coloured enameled metal a counterpoint to the delicate hand-wrapped rattan cope with. Its thoroughly clean, quietly sculptural traces are, of program, a Jens Quistgaard trademark. The Danish mastermind guiding Købsenstyle cookware and the Dansk brand name was educated in sculptural art, and often carried that mindset into the entire world of item style. Quistgaard’s daughter Henriette writes via email, “My father designed his possess private language of sort. Objects experienced to be conceived in a few proportions, a great deal like sculptures, and were underlined by a distinctly own touch. In other phrases, even though Købenstyle was built for industrial creation, it often bore the mark of the human hand.”

An additional issue that is exclusive about Købenstyle items is that they are built to go straight from kitchen area to desk (like the casseroles and paella pans), and are often multifaceted (like the quite well known butter hotter). Even the pitcher finds quite a few takes advantage of other than just to hold drinks (incidentally, it is designed to keep incredibly hot and cold drinks). Elizabeth Spiridakis Olson, VP, Inventive at Foods52 and a lifelong collector of Købenstyle, states she plans to use hers as a vase. “I have my eye on a pink 1, and will be making use of it for bouquets in my kitchen all summer time very long. The pitcher is tall and has a great bodyweight to it, so it’s great for stunning, daring arrangements.”

Food items52 stylist Molly Fitzsimons has the very same notion: “The pitcher is perfectly proportioned for flower arranging: tall and trim, a little cinched towards the prime, then a bit flared to make space for the blossoms of your selection, no matter if a loose bunch of wildflowers or a one shapely department. You can select a color to possibly complement or distinction with your favorite flower—but I have nonetheless to uncover a mixture that doesn’t function.”

Of class, the exclusive signature of Købenstyle is the use of all those crisp, saturated shades. At first, there ended up only four: turquoise, yellow, orange-red and dim blue, but about the decades, the manufacturer expanded that slate of shades. Muhlke purchased a teal pitcher at an antiques shop in West Virginia just about 15 years in the past, and admitted to buying a couple extra whilst curating the Dansk vintage sale. “Now I have obtained my eye on the straight-sided Købenstyle pitcher,” she claims.

The primary pitcher, which Henriette says is nonetheless lacking from her very own assortment, and its versions, like the straight-sided version with the additional standard welded handles, will constantly discover long lasting attraction amid followers of the manufacturer. Muhlke speaks of viewing Quistgaard’s property in rural Denmark—where Henriette even now lives today—and coming across the initial drawings for the pitcher. “It was amazing to be so shut to the source,” she states. “We felt like we were being in the presence of Picasso’s sketches!”