The is a vintage Buenilum 5 piece aluminum chafing dish food warmer with Cherry wood handle. Measures 10" across at the top and the dish is about 3.5" deep and is beveled.

The Buenilum Aluminum company was founded as Buehner-Wanner by metalsmith and industrial designer Frederick Buehner and his business partner, Franz Wanner, in Norwalk, Conn. in 1944. Buehner emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1929. He developed a unique formula for using hammered aluminum, which he trademarked in 1933 as Buenilum, a cross between Buehner and aluminum

The Buehner-Wanner company produced Buenilum pieces throughout the 1930s, '40s, '50s and '60s, making mid-century modern decorative, kitchenware and food service items such as serving trays, lazy Susans, relish dishes, bowls, pots and pans. The company was sold to the Pfaltzgraff company in 1969, which continued to make Buenilum pieces until closing the line in 1979.

Frederick Buehner was born in 1908 and died in 1971. Before coming to America, Buehner studied at the Deutscher Werkbund, or Work Federation, a German association of craftsmen, artists, architects and industrial designers, under the influential architect, furniture designer and cartoonist Bruno Paul.

Orders coming in before 2pm pst are usually shipped out same day.  Orders coming in Friday afternoon or Saturday morning can sometimes be shipped out and Saturday, but most likely they will be shipped out on the following Monday morning. There are no shipments going out on Sunday.