Ashtray
Ashtray
When Wolfgang von Wersin designed this ashtray for the Nymphenburg manufactory in 1933, smoking was a social virtue. And even though the attitude towards enjoying tobacco has changed in many areas, this piece remains simply brilliant. Thanks to its strict geometry, the interplay between highs and lows, and the tension between the round and the angled, it is yet to lose its contemporary feel. With designs of this class, von Wersin rightly joined the elite of The New Objectivity in the annals of design history.