Steel
Each: 2" x 1"
Kerava, FINLAND
THIS IS AN ONGOING ITEM!

Booze, a way of life. Come and get it, the worlds most simple bottle opener. Found hanging on a piece of twine in every Finnish sauna and coming to a home near you soon. Bring it in your pocket to a bar and help the bartender out by opening beers, have it on-hand at the park and make friends with everyone who forgot their opener. There are many occasions where one just needs an opener. We even found one in olde Aalto’s sauna at his summerhouse. This opener is everywhere, GWS power. The bottle opener has a sister with a hooknose. Matti Laurell designed the opener in the 1940’s. Using sheet metal he cut pieces and bent them into the opener. As one might imagine, he quickly got tired of producing them himself and the production was finished. Soon after the company GWS started making them under their name with Laurell’s blessing. GWS does not produce them any longer but another Finnish company does. We could have had the KIOSK logo on each but then we would have had to order 50,000, that’s a lot of cans to open, even by American standards.