Marc, who originally trained as a silversmith, knew that the weight and balance of things is incredibly important, especially when designing flatware which in a sense is a kind of Holy Grail of the household product. The collection is delicate yet utilitarian. The cutlery was expensive to produce because the handles were hollow and had to be welded, unlike most cutlery that is typically stamped out of a sheet of metal.

Strelka, meaning ‘arrow’, was the name of the Russian dog that travelled into space in 1960.