DINNERWARE
The fashion forward house of Sasaki is a maker of tableware, including ceramic porcelain dishware, stainless steel cutlery, crystal and glass drinkware and decorative objects. The position in the marketplace is one of unprecedented and original modern styles at popular price points. All of the products are designed by independent designers, such as: Phillipe Starck, Andree Putnam, Masimo Vignelli and Ward Bennett. Sasaki also works with an extensive group of younger designers, like Paula Zanger and Amy Clavelli.
"Paula Zanger walks the delicate line between fine and applied arts with extraordinary agility. Ms. Zanger seems to have the unusual ability to bring forth exceptional new beauty from very old processes while maintaining an understandable aesthetic rooted in our abstract cultural experience.”
Charles Gallagher, SASAKI former Vice President of, Marketing & Product.Zanger’s transition from textiles to table top has been a wild success. Her previous china lines for SASAKI, Palazzo and Beaux, revolutionized the table top industry by defining casual dining as a lifestyle. The popular media has used Palazzo in television commercials to promote household names, such as, Maxwell House Coffee, Campbell’s Soup and Transmedia.
We invite you to peruse a few of the licenced items. Click on the thumbnails below for larger reproductions:
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Sasaki News:
Salton Acquires Sasaki, Inc.
MT. PROSPECT, IL, April 5, 1999 -- Salton, Inc. (NYSE:SFP) today announced that it has acquired certain assets of Sasaki, Inc., a well-known designer and manufacturer of high-quality tabletop products and accessories for the home, from Sasaki Glass Company Ltd. Under terms of the transaction, Salton purchased Sasaki's inventory, except for the Christian Dior tabletop product line, in addition to licensing the Sasaki(R) brand name for a period of twenty years, with an option to renew. As part of the transaction, Salton also agreed to assume certain minor liabilities. Additional terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Sasaki had revenues of approximately $9 million in 1998. The transaction is expected to be accretive to Salton's results in its fiscal 2000, beginning July 1, 1999.
Sasaki's product line includes dinnerware, stemware, barware, flatware, and crystal giftware designed by well-known tabletop and domestic designers such as Phillippe Starck, Vignelli Associates, Paula Zanger, and Gerald Golotta, among others. Its products are distributed to high-end specialty retailers, including Bloomingdale's, Saks Fifth Avenue, and Barneys New York, throughout the United States.
Leon Dreimann, Chief Executive Officer of Salton Inc., said, "The acquisition of Sasaki is another step forward for our Block China division, as it further solidifies our position in the tabletop products market, where we already have a meaningful presence with our Block(R) China and Atlantis(R) Crystal product lines. With its loyal customer base and exciting product line, we believe Sasaki will complement and enhance our current tabletop product offerings."
Mr. Dreimann continued, "While we intend to maintain a separate and distinct marketing effort for our Block(R) China product line, we see significant opportunity to leverage our marketing effort for Atlantis(R) Crystal with Sasaki(R), two higher-end product lines, effectively positioning ourselves as a more important and powerful resource to tabletop products retailers."
SASAKI
41 Madison Avenue
New York, N.Y. 10010
(212) 686-7440
For more information and retail distribution of Paula Zanger's designs for Sasaki please contact: 1-800-233-9054 or @ www.salton-maxim.com
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