Ice Axe
1900 · Steel, wood, and cloth strap
39 1/2 x 13 3/16 x 3" (100.3 x 33.5 x 7.6 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Fratelli Grivel (now Grivel S.r.l.)
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Design for Sport
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1962
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- MoMA bulk 2026-05-04Tier 1 · Institutional92%
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Fratelli Grivel was an Italian manufacturing house founded in 1818 in the Aosta Valley, specializing in hand-forged steel crampons and mountaineering equipment. The company's technical innovations in ice axe and climbing gear design established foundational forms that shaped alpine equipment for over a century. Each tool was individually crafted, combining functional precision with the material logic of wrought steel.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 27d ago
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Museum of Modern Art
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