The graceful cutleries of
the silver manufacture Wilkens & sons in Bremen are made in solid quality for the everyday use, and affordable prices.
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Martin Heinrich Wilkens founded the company in 1810, a cutlery was not natural for everybody at all: The company was founded as a workshop and mint institution for board silver for the prospering Hanseatic town Bremen, but also for the kingdom of Hannover. At the middle of the 19th century the cutlery became popular and boomed, also as a status symbol. In the course of the industrial revolution cutleries could be made in serial production now and new procedures of galvanisation permitted, to produce silver plated cutlery in series also. Wilkens & sons as one of the oldest German silver manufactures participated from this impetus. Only after the Second World War the company also started to produce conformist cutleries from stainless steel in Bremen, inexpensive and the time taste.
characterised by a pleasant haptics, to adequate dimensions and a well carried out design from which reveals the creation well, however, is never obstrusive. These qualities stretch through the whole range of Wilkens, no matter whether it is a cutlery from sterling silver or an inexpensive cutlery from stainless steel. Merely with the cutleries from sterling silver there is the exception of both historical models the Ermitage and Venezia, both reproductions of cutlery models from the 19th century on old tools from the fund of the company. In addition, traditional cutleries dominate with the cutleries of real silver in the typically way of Wilkens: with a moderate design. Only two cutleries in the assortment of the real silver cutleries which is permanently in stock show a modern design: Palladio, a flagship of the assortment of Wilkens and Classic, a design from 1960 which is made exclusively in sterling silver. Palladio is also available in silver plated and as a cutlery for every day in stainless steel. This sketch of Ulla and Martin Kaufmann from the nineties refers in the design discreet to floral motives: leaves and peduncles were the models for the gracile shape.
is produced like all cutleries in this material, of a core from german silver, an alloy of copper, nickel and zinc and a layer of silver on it. This material has to the silver comparable qualities, nevertheless, is far more robust. Most cutleries of Wilkens in silver plated are produced on this material which also allows the fine elaboration of the ornaments. We find in the range of the silvered cutleries more models with modern designs: to all at the head Epoca of Wolf Karnagel from the nineties. How so many cutleries of Wilkens which are also still available many decades after her origin, as well as the typical cutlery Tulipan or the model Margeriten, sketched in the 19th century by Heinrich Vogeler. The painter who became known in Germany particularly by his painting from Jugendstil, worked and lived very close to Bremen in the artist's colony cofounded by him: Worpswede. Both cutlery patterns are still made today by Wilkens & sons in Bremen - however, also many old cutlery models Wilkens keeps in the so-called Collectors Edition. Please, calculate some delivery time with orders from this assortment. With the cutleries from stainless steel Wilkens could probably reach the biggest spreading, all new designs for the material steel. Wilkens could win different famous designers for these new design lines. To name Wolf Karnagel, Ulla and Martin Kaufmann, Katja Höltermann and Walter Storr among many others. We like with the stainless steel cutleries of Wilkens particularly that every single pattern has got his own unmistakeable character. And, nevertheless, one clearly recognises that these can be only from the house Wilkens & sons: Well formed cutleries in a respectable material strength in a decent quality. You should expect this from the cutleries of Wilkens.
Starting with the historical cutlery Venezia or Eremitage, to the models from the beginning of the last century like Spaten (spade),...
In the more than bicentenary history since the foundation in 1810 the manufacture Wilkens & sons of Bremen has created an abundant number of cutlery pattern .
Wilkens cutleries in 180g Royal silver plated demonstrates the whole style spectrum of the Bremen silver manufacture Wilkens & Sons.
Today stainless steel cutleries of Wilkens are an important pillar in the assortment of the Bremen silver manufacturer. Just as the cutleries of sterling silver and in silver plated, all cutleries from stainless steel in 18/10 also have an excellent haptics...
Hollowware of silver from the Bremen manufacture has a long tradition: When the silver manufacture began in 1810, hollowware and table accessories, table silver were made for the rich Hanseatic town Bremen and were delivered to the than far away Hanover...
Founded by the goldsmith Martin Heinrich Wilkens in 1810, the company was originally a embossing institution for silver. Hollowware from silver was made for the Hanseatic town Bremen and for the kingdom of Hannover. From the middle of the 19th century Wilkens began with the production of silver cutleries. The patterns at that time were orientated at the time taste at that time. In the pattern books at that time we recognise beside the cutleries a rich choice by silver- and tableware. These products were delivered from the middle of the 19th century in the German cities.
In the second half of the 20th century the production of cutleries dominates the company Wilkens & Sons. Besides the production of cutleries of silver the technical competence was used to produce also cutleries of other materials, as for example stainless steel or even titanium. The company Wilkens has succeeded in offering contemporary collections in high-quality workmanship together with famous designers. Beside Wolf Karnagel particularly the married couple Ulla and Martin Kaufmann and the designer Walter Storr are decisively for the modern line of the cutleries of Wilkens. Not only in sterling silver and in silver plated, but also in high-grade steel these cutleries fast became a success.
Particularly in the line of the stainless steel cutleries these designers play an outstanding role. An unpretentious handiness is too own to the cutleries in combination with a reserved elegance. To all at the head of the exceptionally successful draught to the cutlery Palladio. This is available not only successfully as a cutlery from stainless steel, but also in silver and sterling silver. In addition, with the silver cutleries the cutleries of traditional style are dominating. The historical cutleries Venezia and the Eremitage are to be emphasised particularly here. The latter the limited jubilee cutlery from 2010 on the occasion of the 140-year-old existence of Wilkens, Venezia from 2011. Both models are replica which are produced on the old tools of the treasure of the company Wilkens & sons. Both patterns show an opulence otherwise rather atypical for the brand. But exactly so rise from the remaining program of the silver cutleries of Wilkens.
The company Wilkens is able to access on a big treasure of tools. Many models which were sold during former years are thereby still available. These cutleries are to be found in the category 'Collectors edition'. In the range of silver cutleries we find the typical models like Chippendale, Augsburger Faden and Spaten, however, besides also one of the most popular silver cutleries of Wilkens: the Schwedisch Faden (Swedish thread). This model is in his workmanship outstanding under the traditional cutleries of Wilkens: This cutlery unites, nevertheless, everything what is the hallmark of Wilkens cutleries: Handiness and a pleasant haptics, a big variety in individual parts and a reserved elegance. With these qualities the model Schwedisch Faden has become the most prominent cutlery model of Wilkens. This cutlery is available in sterling silver as well as a high-quality cutlery in silver edition. The hollowware of Wilkens encloses a large range of plates and trays, as well as an assortment of gobelets. Particularly the gobelets are suited very well as an object which can be provided with an engraving. How, by the way, all products can be delivered by Wilkens with an engraving.
Made, by the way, still where the company since the 19th century his is seated: in Bremen. - And the production of silver is that what controls Wilkens since now more than 200 years best of all.
