
Robbe & Berking cutlery in 925 sterling silver, 150 silver plated and stainless
Cutlery of the Flensburg manufacturer
Robbe & Berking rightly have a doubtless good reputation and already the rise of this company is connected with this. And so the family enterprise for over 140 years has almost made nothing else than knife spoon and forks and therefore possess an immense experience with the production of these luxury products.

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At the time the company was
founded in 1874, cutlery still started to come into vogue in Europe . In memory: though during the centuries before people owned a spoon and a knife, however, the fork was used in the beginning- if used at all - in the kitchen. Using forks was considered as a dissolute Venetian fashion. The fact that cutlery became a representation object which was also to be found in middle-class households, is the case since the 19th century. And a nice flatware in which all parts fitting together harmoniously became a symbol of a cultured house – like it is even today.
In this sphere Mr. Berking started
to start the production of cutleries in the goldsmith's workshop of Mr. Robbe, and did it very successfully. Many of the cutleries from the pattern book of the company correspond to the prevailing taste at that time, but later there were phases in those the great grandfathers and grandfathers of the current owner Oliver Berking over and over again stamped the assortment of the company with their designs. To particularly be named are Theodor and Robert Berking. In the extreme creative time after the world war the today's luxury brand began to revolutionize the silver with for then incredibly modern designed silver, some collections we find still today under the historical models. In the time after the war unpretentious small cutleries with short knife blades and a spoon-like fork were asked. The company Robbe & Berking sold these products at that time in whole North Germany - what meanta gigantic business zone at that time.
Today the family enterprise from
Flensburg realises regularly new and contemporary desings in sterling or in the silvered plated, executed by the masters of the company concerning the wishes of the designers. Thus three flagships of the assortment 'Alta', 'Riva' and 'Sphinx' were originated during the last years, all after modern designs penned by Wilfried Moll. Besides the Flensburger manufacture also does not disregard the classical pattern: Navette, Französisch Perl, Classic Faden. And even the utterly North German pattern Ostfriesen mustn't be absent in the collection. all products of this luxury brand common is the unconditional love to the detail and an indubitable execution. Last but not least the high-grade stainless steel cutleries should be mentioned, particularly modern designed for the robust use.
On a yacht, for the private home or a representative occasion: in the range of Robbe & Berking cutlery you certainly will find your favorite.
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Flatware from massive silver of Robbe and Berking is quite special eating tools.
It gives quite a special pleasure to hold this cutlery in the hands. And this is certainly not accidential, because the family enterprise deals since his foundation almost...
Silver plated cutleries of Robbe Berking show quite similar characteristic features like the cutleries from massive silver. You see the same designs and find a wide range with a lot of accessories.
For all topical tableware Robbe & Berking offers a postpurchase guarantee until 2040.
For classic patterns which production has run out for a long time, the Flensburg silversmith continues to produce almost all individual parts.
Under the name of the great silver manufactory Robbe & Berking, products are made of durable steel offered only since a relatively short time - measured by the history of the luxury brand.
In addition to the wide diversified assortment of silver cutlery Robbe & Berking produces a comprehensive range in table accessories in silver and hollowware.
Robbe & Berking is a manufacture in the original sense: Everything is produced in time-consuming manual labour. For example, for manufacturing a single cutlery part only are necessary up to 40 different operations. And most operations are as executed today, even as they were necessary 140 years ago at the time of the foundation of the company. The company was founded by Nicholas Christoph Robbe in 1874. He was a gold- and silversmith and worked first in a small workshop in which he offered repair and engravings. Today nobody would probably remember this small business in Flensburg, if Robert Berking had not joined the business and gave the company impetus with his idea to produce cutleries by the end of 19th century. The company Robbe & Berking soon sold his cutleries till then far away Hamburg. The company blossomed and marketed cutleries of the manufacture primarily with jewellers and soon one dozen employees was nourished. During the postwar years in the sixties Robbe & Berking found out a new blossom. Sketched by Robert Berking, quite new modern and the spirit of the times suitable cutlery models were produced of silver. Today many of these are still liked and you find this even today explained on these sides under the column vintage series. Robbe and Berking still stuck to his tradition of the cutlery production and got on as a handicraft business, as a manufacture. Since in 1990ies the profile of the brand has changed once more and there came out the models which should stamp the appearance of the brand: Alta and later Riva. You recognize particularly by the last-mentioned clearly the development of a new creation with Robbe & Berking.
At the beginning stands the design, worked out primarily as a sample by the master craftsmen and later in the production – without compromises. No design is falsified, only because the production probably is a little more complicated. And that is the reason we hold with every piece of silver of Robbe & Berking precisely the idea of the designer in our hands. The history of Robbe & Berking during the past 80 years has made the company the world market leader in cutleries from sterling to silver. Twenty tons of this highly noble material is processed per year by 170 employees. One recognises that all cutlery models are available mainly in sterling silver, however, but also in addition a less expensive silvered variation of the patterns can be delivered. The silvered cutlery is produced on a core of German silver, an alloy of nickel, copper and zinc. This core allows working out the details similar precisely like on the soft sterling silver. One of the latest models with the cutleries is the cutlery Sphinx. Sphinx leans upon the tradition of the cutleries in the German Bauhaus style of the 40ies by Robbe & Berking. Sign of this cutlery is 90 ° corner in the crossing of the style to the bowl which gives a striking appearance to this representative cutlery. The appearance of this cutlery is complemented with a so-called German knife blade with a distinctive back. Excellently reveals itself in this draught that with Robbe & Berking every pattern has an individual knife blade, every cutlery differs also in the form of the fork prongs and the bowls. A different cutlery model is not only a different handle.
For ambitious demands are Robbe & Berking offeres table accessories and hollowware, some of it - like the tableware series Alta - are issued as design examples in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The lines of these teapots, tureens and platters of Alta lean upon the maxim of Dessauer Bauhaus and are available in sterling silver as well as in silver plated. For us the nicest coffee service in silver of the today's time is the Neue Form: Made in sterling silver the design fascinates by softy, however, absolutely clear lines. In the centre of this design stands the bulbous or spherical basic form, complements with braces which connect clutch, lid and spout of the pot. The buttons and clutches made in Grenadille wood, an extremely hard tropical wood which we know from the instrument making, for example, from clarinets. Neue Form is an uncompromising design, and we recognize, as usual, with Robbe & Berking, the pursued expenditure in detail. Robbe & Berking has become with his company philosophy the synonym for silver cutlery from Germany in indisputable quality. Exclusively made in own Flensburger workshops, the cutlery of the family enterprise Robbe & Berking is unparalleled in quality and design.



