Oscar Tusquets Blanca "Victoria" Stainless Steel Dinnerware

Item Details

Oscar Tusquets Blanca (Spain; born 1941)
Victoria, 1991
Stainless steel dinnerware
Inscribed ‘Follies, Italy 18/10’ to the versos

A set of Victoria dinnerware designed by Oscar Tusquets Blanca. This set includes two stainless steel spoons, a dinner knife, a dinner fork, and a butter knife. Each item features a bold rectilinear body embellished with abstract delineations to the base of the handle.

Born in Barcelona, Oscar Tusquets Blanca is an established and reputable architect, designer, painter, and writer. He graduated from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura in 1965 after which he became an active member of Studi Per along with Pep Bonet, Cristian Cirici, Lluís Clotet and Mireia Riera. This collaboration led him to become one of the founding partners of Bd Barcelona Design where he began working on furniture and objects design. Some of Blanca’s most notable achievements include collaborating with his mentor and friend Salvador Dali in designing the Figueras Theater-Museum in 1975 and having his work remain in the collections the Moma in New York and George Pompidou in Paris.

Provenance
Property from the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, sold to benefit the Art Acquisition Fund.

Condition

- minor accretions that can easily be polished clean.

Dimensions

- largest spoon measures; butterknife measures 0.75" W x 5.5" H.

Item #

18IND030-060