This cocktail shaker from Alessi is the epitomy of 1920's style. The design is a contrast of forms - it has a large spherical body and slender handle. It's made from polished stainless steel and forms part of the 'Alessi Officina' collection which includes their most sophisticated, experimental and innovative products, as well as small-scale and limited productions.
Initially attributed to Marianne Brandt (Bruckmanns Silber Lexicon, Munich 1982, and H. Wikmann, Die Neue Sammlung, Munich, 1995), subsequent studies by Peter Hahn, director of the Bauhaus Archiv, this cocktail shaker has since been attributed to the Swedish designer Sylvia Stave and was manufactured between 1920 and 1930 by the C. G. Hallbergs company of Stockholm.
