Stainless steel chopstick cutlery
Stainless steel chopstick cutlery
Siam Bronze Factory
There is a certain logic to it, once you see it. The chopstick - the object that much of Asia uses instead of flatware - has a cross-section unlike anything in the Western knife or fork: square, precise, each edge a clean line. The Smutkochorn family, who have been casting bronze in Bangkok since 1954, took that geometry and applied it to a fork handle. Then a knife. Then a spoon.
The result is the Chopstick pattern: boxy, with distinct edges, the meeting point of Japanese form and Scandinavian restraint. Cast in solid bronze in the same workshop on Charoen Krung Road where the family has worked for three generations.
This version of the Chopstick pattern is brought to a full mirror polish. Available as a British Family Set - dinner fork, dinner knife, dinner and soup spoon, salad and dessert fork, salad and dessert knife, and coffee spoon - as a single place setting for those building a collection piece by piece.
Hand-made in Bangkok by the Smutkochorn family. Exclusive to Australia through The Leopard.
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Product information and care
- Material: Solid Bronze/Brass
- Each piece is individually polished and wrapped
- Handmade in Thailand
- Dishwasher safe - hand dry recommended to avoid water tarnishing
- Please note due to the handmade nature sizes may vary slightly and imperfections may occur
About Siam Bronze Factory
Bangkok, 1954. Charles Smutkochorn noticed something: American visitors, travelling from Guam in the years after the war, were searching for authentic Thai souvenirs, and they were drawn, in particular, to the monk bowl - a vessel cast from solid bronze, made by hand, unchanged for centuries. They also, being Western, wanted to eat with flatware. Charles saw a connection that no one else had made.
He worked closely with eight brothers - young men who had learned their craft making bronze monk bowls for temple use - to refine the technique and develop designs for bronze flatware. Until that moment, the material was effectively reserved for royalty and the elite. Bronze was chosen for a reason: when it comes into contact with poison, it changes colour and tarnishes. For centuries, that property made it valuable in ways that had nothing to do with aesthetics.
Charles's first retail shop opened at 1250 Charoen Krung Road, on a stretch then flanked by three of Bangkok's most prominent hotels. The business grew. Siam Bronze became Thailand's largest manufacturer and exporter of bronze flatware. More than fifty retail stores sourced from them along Charoen Krung Road alone.
The company is now run by the second and third generations of the Smutkochorn family. The "Thai Dancer" pattern, crafted in 1954, remains in production. Siam Bronze Factory is the only company commercially manufacturing hand-made solid bronze flatware in Thailand - and one of the last remaining in the world.
Each piece is hand-made in Bangkok, exclusive to Australia through The Leopard.
