Kalo Shop
The Arts & Crafts metalcrafter Kalo Shop was in operation form 1900 to 1970 and was a significant producer of 20th-century hand-wrought silver. It was started by Clara P. Barck and five other women in Park Ridge, Illinois. The company moved to Chicago in 1914. Though they tried, unsuccessfully, to open a retail store in New York, they never retailed their wares in department stores, instead selling directly to the consumers. The early Kalo holloware was often angular, paneled, or almost architectural, but the later pieces were more curved, flowing and sensual more flowerly Nouveau in form. Later Kalo artisans based their designs more on nature and Scandinavian motifs, generally called Arts & Crafts. It also adhered to the Arts & Crafts roots of hand-craftsmanship.
Information courtesy of Craftsman Auctions – Lambertville & Cowan Auctions, Inc., 2006.