The knife are little more than a slender metal zep and the three - put up forks so minute you could barely spear up a green edible bean , but what Arne Jacobsen ’s unsullied blade flatware lacks in functionality , it makes up in futuristic style . That ’s why it was featured in 2001 . I own a set of this celebrated flatware , and have the backstory scoop on the most elegant utensil ever used in a skill fabrication plastic film .
Designed in 1957 as part of Jacobsen ’s down - to - the - lowly - detail plan for the SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen , Denmark , the cutlery was take by director Stanley Kubrick for a cameo role in 2001 : A Space Odyssey ( 1968 ) . seeable for a few moments while the Jupiter Mission crew eat dinner and watch the news , Jacobsen ’s space - age design is still availabletoday . It ai n’t cheap , but how else can you impress the new , improved generation of HAL supercomputers at your next dinner company ?
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