Kay Bojesen

Kay Bojesen is the Danish company that keeps the work of Kay Bojesen (1886–1958) in production: cutlery, tableware, barware, silverware and the wooden figures he began making in the 1930s. Bojesen trained as a silversmith in Georg Jensen’s workshop, travelled through Europe, and returned to Copenhagen a functionalist, which shaped everything he made afterwards.

His Grand Prix cutlery, designed in 1938, was meant to feel comfortable in the hand and stay quiet at the table, and it remains the core of the range alongside the wooden monkey and the animal figures. Bojesen believed good design should not be reserved for silver, so the same forms were produced in steel, wood, glass and porcelain – which is why the collection sits as easily in a kitchen drawer as in a museum case.