flea market finds: Scandinavia!

i heart Scandinavian design! it was a movement that began in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland in the 1950's and characterized by high quality simple designs, functionality as well as affordability. Perhaps the most popular and easily recognizable of these that survived until now is IKEA (Sweden) and Bang and Olufsen (Denmark). i have been looking out for anything remotely resembling Scandinavian design here in Gib (in the fleas, i mean, aherm) but they never seemed to show up. until the other day...

these two stainless steel platters with teak handles were a bit rugged and dusty when i saw them in my favorite shop. they were buried under a ton of barware!

as you can see the teak handles need a bit of love but a good soaking and a good wood polishing can do wonders!

the mark i found in the long one says "Stainless Steel 18/8 Denmark" and in the small one is "18 Stainless Steel Foreign". apparently the numbers indicate the composition and grade of steel. the higher the numbers, the more corrosive resistant it is. these babies are top of the line!