Silver experts have written that Allan Adler (1916-2002) worked in the Arts and Crafts style and that his shapes were inspired by the Modernist art movement of the early 1900s.

Wikipedia states that Allan Adler was a "celebrity silversmith". Perhaps this is because Mr. Adler's work is in the personal estates of such celebrities as Errol Flynn, Orson Welles, Montgomery Clift, Steven Spielberg, Cher, Julie Andrews, Candice Bergen, Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Paul Newman, Clark Gable, George Cukor, Jack Benny, Barbara Stanwyck, Vincent Price, Carol Channing, Tom Hanks, Eleanor Roosevelt and Katherine Hepburn. In fact, before she became a star on the Hollywood silver screen, young Katherine Hepburn worked in Mr. Adler's retail boutique on Sunset Boulevard.

Born in Missoula, Montana, Allan lived and worked most of his life in Los Angeles, California. His know-how came about through the careful tutoring of his father-in-law, Porter Blanchard (1886 – 1973). Porter himself was a seventh-generation silversmith and is also honored by the Smithsonian Institution as one of America's foremost silversmiths. William Durgin in Concord, New Hampshire had instructed Mr. Blanchard's father during the 1880's. Founded in 1853 in Concord, New Hampshire, the William B. Durgin Company was purchased by the Gorham Company in 1905.

Silver Magazine wrote about Adler in a 2002 obituary: "Adler designed flatware and hollowware in plain, geometric shapes with clean lines. A teardrop-shaped teapot and a coffee urn looking like an oversized egg were two of his favorite pieces. "I strive for simplicity and believe that simplicity is beauty and that a thing of beauty lives forever," he once said."

Silver Magazine went on to recount:

"One of his special commissions was a silver coffee urn which he made for a John F. Kennedy presidential campaign fund-raising event. He also designed flatware for California Governor Pat Brown and a silver hairbrush for Sir Winston Churchill."

"With the advent of World War II, Adler added jewelry to his repertoire. It exhibits the same clean lines typical of his hollowware and flatware. It also gave him an opportunity to incorporate pre-Columbian iconography, which he particularly loved, into his work."

In addition to his shop on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, California, Allan Adler also had locations in La Jolla, Corona del Mar and San Francisco, California prior to the 1980's.

Today, the Adler Know-How continues in the work of Adler's daughter, Cynthia Adler and his grandson Danny Allan Parsel.

Mr. Adler's love for the craft is alive and well in the numerous craftsmen he trained, most notable of which was his apprentice Mr. Kanook Tassananchlee "Knui" who is now passing the tradition along to his son within the storied Adler studio and workshop.