Silver
Silver tableware, hand crafted and uniquely designed, is the central focus of Josephine Lützel's work.
A beautifully decorated table unfolds before the eye of the observer:
The large nine-armed candleholder forms a royal central table-piece, a shining silver fruit bowl offers a sweet fruit bounty, and a tea or coffee pot invites you for a hot drink. A bit of hot milk poured from the elegant and graceful little milkpot?
Take the desert silverware into your hands and cut one of the fruits from the bowl into bite-sized pieces. It is a joy to use the silverware. The way the knife handle fits perfectly to the shape of your palm, and the fork tempts you to pierce the fruit!
A bit of fresh pepper to grind over the melon? The peppermill, made of ebony and silver, is seductive... This is how to dine in perfection.
Josephine Lützel's designs and handmade works not only have all the requirements needed to please their owners through esthetics, but also in everyday use, their perfect handling will continue to amaze. Design follows function. Ideas, form and handcraft work together and are clearly seen in the outcome.
J. Lützel often develops the bodies of vessels from cylinders, cones, or slightly convex lens-like walls.
For a good year now J. Lützel has been occupied with the building of asymmetric bodies consisting of triangular bases and tops, and outward shaping sides.
The two triangles are not exactly the same size or dimension and are rotated slightly. Through these inconsistencies, the body maintains its own dynamic.
Every vantage offers a new perspective, and every contour progresses differently. When two forms are viewed together, they are immediately in step and relative to one another. This happens through one's bending in a direction, and the other's reflecting surfaces. The vessels form a block, enclosed, and at the same time they stretch themselves to an opening height, ready to consume. They allow both a view deep into their hollows, and into their silver, shining white environment.