S.T. Dupont Large Ashtray — Monogram 1872, Black

S.T. Dupont Large Ashtray — Monogram 1872, Black

The Monogram 1872 collection exists across three finishes in the large ashtray format, and each finish says something different about what it means to put the founding logo on a piece of porcelain. Burgundy says ceremony. Black says statement. The black Monogram 1872 ashtray is the one that makes the founding logo most visible — the graphic contrast of the pattern against a dark ground producing the clearest reading of the new S.T. Dupont logo from whatever distance the table allows.

Monogram 1872 / Black Porcelain

The ashtray is made in porcelain — the material appropriate to an object of this format and permanence — decorated with the Monogram 1872 pattern in black. The hand-painted notches and borders give the piece its artisanal distinction: the details at the rim that place this ashtray in the tradition of fine decorated porcelain rather than production ceramics. The Monogram 1872 motif — the new S.T. Dupont logo, described by the Maison as upright, determined, and proud — appears on a black ground with the clarity that high contrast provides. The same two-tone logic that makes the Monogram 1872 Black lighter and cutter stand the most graphically assertive versions of those objects applies here, at the larger scale of the table surface.

Black / The Most Graphic Expression

Of the three Monogram 1872 ashtray finishes, black is the one that communicates the founding logo most directly. The hand-painted details and the pattern itself are readable at a glance — the dark ground creates no ambiguity about what the decoration is, where the motif begins and ends. An ashtray is a surface object; it is seen from above and from the side; it is the object at rest while the others are in use. The black Monogram 1872 ashtray is legible under all of these conditions. It is also the most contemporary of the three — the finish that connects the 1872 founding motif most directly to the present moment. Personalization available up to three characters.

Now available at The Tobacconist of Greenwich.