The silver-plated salad fork in the América pattern is wider than a dinner fork to facilitate cutting through lettuce with ease. Following World War I, America became synonymous with modernity and the world fell in love with its music, literature, art, lifestyle and architecture. To commemorate the across-the-pond admiration, Christofle named this 1933-launched Art Deco pattern of angular corners, beveled edges and masculine lines after the country.