Ritz Champagne Cooler

Bollhagen elevated the simple ceramic champagne cooler with her signature sgraffito-ritz technique – a method of scratching colour into the clay before firing. Exclusive to ABASK, the Bauhaus-inspired design is now handmade at the historic Berlin factory by a team of skilled artisans.

Material: ceramic
Country of origin: Germany
Dimensions: 19cm (h) x 36.5cm (d) / 7.4" (h) x 14.3" (d)
Weight: 2.7kg / 6.0 lbs
Colour: black

An opponent of machine manufacturing, Hedwig Bollhagen helped shape the 20th-century handmade movement, and her scratchy “sgraffito-ritz” ceramics came to define modern good taste. She became a feminine icon in newly unified Germany – as admired for her own resilience and strength as that of her designs.

Product number: 2202106012