NO NO NO NO NO NO!  

Oy. Thanks, Paul Smith. Cylinda cries OUT for spashes of neon--
"Paul Smith is delighted to launch a new collection of tableware to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Stelton. Paul Smith re-worked designs from the Stelton Archives and the Arne Jacobsen's Cylinda collection giving them a refreshing and contemporary update."
Danish designer Arne Jacobsen, best known for designing 'The Egg' and 'Number 7' chairs, is an exemplar of the 'Danish Modern' style. Paul Smith has long admired Jacobsen's work and so was delighted to be asked to re-invent the now iconic Cylinda collection. The collection respects the integrity of the original design with tea and coffee pots in hand polished stainless-steel while incorporating highlights of colour on the handles indicative of Paul Smith?s innate sense of colour."

They needed Paul Smith to do...
They needed Paul Smith to do that-Really?

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Yeah, maybe they fly him in by zeppelin once a month to add the pigment by hand.
Its almost as bad as when FH thought yellow and silver leather on the PK chairs would be a good idea.

Apparently innovation is...
Apparently innovation is dead. That's why we get things like Transformers 3.

I'm glad to be with you here...
at the end of all things.

If that's an 'innate sense of colour'
I'm a hamster.

Buy 'em now before they're gone for good!
Leave them to your grandchildren. Those things will be rarer than hen's teeth someday.

Or.....just make a...
Or.....just make a "statement"
"Paul Smith has transformed Arne Jacobsen's bar series into a gorgeous fantasy in black, and one can enjoy a drink while considering thoughts such as "Take pleasure seriously" and "Start something new" which are engraved into the black surface."
Why?

Ooof!
I hadn't noticed THOSE, Jesgord.
Now that I've seen Cylinda scribbled with these little slogans, the old stuff that Jacobsen did seems WAY too plain, boring, and Scandinavian.
The ad copy quotes only the shorter slogans ("Take pleasure seriously", "Start something new"), but you'll notice that the larger pieces bear longer statements, which I've copied below, for your design enjoyment--
CYLINDA COCKTAIL SHAKER:
"On the tits of a barmaid named Gayle,
Were tattooed prices of beer, stout, and ale.
And on her behind,
For the sake of the blind,
Was precisely the same,
But in Braille."
CYLINDA TEA POT:
"There was a young man named Dave
Who kept a dead whore in a cave.
Said he, "I'll admit
She does smell a bit,
But look at the money I save!"
CYLINDA SUGAR BOWL:
There once was a man from Nantucket
Whose dick was so long he could suck it
And he said with a grin
As he wiped off his chin,
"If my ear were a cunt, I would fuck it."

Aaahhh, the classics!
What could be more respectful of integrity, really?

I vote
we turn this into the Dirty Limerick Thread and forget all about the desecration of a few, paltry design classics. My mind is awhirl as we speak.

OMG!!
whc, I think that I love you. Way too funny.
Drinks are in me...order up.

Yep...
Drinks are also on me, and in me..I usually have a bar tab, so order up. I'm temporally limited on limericks, so a naughty joke will have to do...
Q: What's the worst thing you could hear when giving Willy Nelson a blow job?
A: I'm not Willy Nelson.
Cocktail hour love, as always,
Mark

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I hope someone from Stelton is looking at this little spot on the net, they're probably more interested in what the Posh and Becks demographic thinks though.