Pott 32 Gold Nugget

An anniversary edition for the 50th birthday

A Pott classic celebrates a very special anniversary, a golden one, Pott 32 turns 50. In the early 70s Carl Pott worked on probably the most delicate cutlery in the Pott portfolio which was launched in 1973. On the occasion of this special birthday, the limited edition "Pott 32 Gold Nugget" is released.

For this anniversary edition, Pott 32 coffee spoons, which are normally produced in stainless steel with a matt brushed finish, are manufactured in 925 sterling silver at the Pott manufactory in Mettmann. Then, in her studio, master goldsmith Inga Mehner (also from Mettmann) places 24-carat gold nuggets on the characteristic hollow at the end of the handle. Like a golden drop, the nugget lies gracefully in the thumb-shaped moulding and is mirrored in the brilliantly polished surface.

The limited Pott 32 Gold Nugget Edition is available for a limited time and in limited quantities at the Pott Flatware Manufactory to celebrate the 50th anniversary.

Carl Pott and his "little spoons"

Carl Pott lived for the design of his cutlery. Like a painter who cannot let go of a particular motif and is challenged to constant creative effort, Carl Pott remained faithful to his "little spoons," as he affectionately called his cutlery inventions, throughout his life. Tirelessly and restlessly, he worked on ever new variations of this utilitarian object, seemingly determined for a long time by its basic functions. 

His cutlery models were omnipresent and their design was the subject of many evening-long discussions with friends. He always carried around in his pocket a small sample spoon of a design he was working on, so that he could take it out on occasion and subject it to another critical examination. If he then put aside a piece of cutlery that had been completed as a hand sample, he was already thinking about the next one.

The cutlery were in a creative-spiritual sense his children, which he formed, in which he recognized himself. "Ideas come when they want: while working, while traveling, and - while eating," Carl Pott once mentioned. He didn't have a studio to which he retreated with sharpened pencil to unleash his creativity at the drawing board. He had his best ideas in bed shortly before falling asleep. Then he would quickly get up again to record them in one of his small notebooks bound in red leather. "My doodles" he called these first still fleeting sketches. The next day they were refined.