From Sketch to Table
Baltic is defined by precise facets and handles that end in a diamond-shaped point. The angular detailing catches the light and gives the pattern a bright, architectural character.
Baltic is defined by precise facets and handles that end in a diamond-shaped point. The angular detailing catches the light and gives the pattern a bright, architectural character.
Faceted handles with diamond-shaped ends create a crisp and luminous expression.
When designing for the table, the focus is balance, restraint and the feeling of holding something that already belongs in your hand.
Robert Berking
The 30-piece Baltic set is composed for six people and includes six menu knives, six menu forks, six menu spoons, six coffee spoons and six cake forks. The additional cake forks extend the setting beyond the main meal, allowing Baltic’s polished, architectural design language to continue naturally into coffee, cake and dessert.
In Hamburg, Baltic forms part of the table at petit bonheur, a multi-award-winning restaurant shaped by a distinctly French sense of hospitality. Patron Ergün M. Uysal and chef de cuisine David Rohlfing create an atmosphere inspired by the restaurants and bistros of the Seine, with refined French cooking, carefully selected wines and classic tableside gestures such as crêpes Suzette. Against this backdrop, Baltic feels particularly at home: polished and elegant, with enough formality to belong to the room without becoming theatrical.
They allow the table to keep the same visual language after the dinner plates have been cleared. Rather than introducing unrelated dessert cutlery, the six cake forks carry Baltic’s precise handle geometry and polished surface into the final part of the meal. It is a small detail, but one that makes the 30-piece set feel particularly considered as a complete dining experience.
Baltic takes a classical cutlery silhouette and sharpens it through geometry. The clean corners at the ends of the handles give each piece a precise, almost architectural definition, while the polished surface brings light to the table. The result is formal but restrained — recognisably classical without relying on ornament.
Baltic was designed by Robert Berking. His approach places proportion, surface and precise detailing at the centre of the object. In Baltic, that philosophy is visible in the relationship between the polished steel and the sharply resolved handle ends, creating a collection that moves naturally between contemporary homes and the rituals of refined restaurant dining.