Design
Design as a meeting of ideas
A design begins when an idea meets a material and a way of using it. For Serafino Zani, dialogue with designers has opened different perspectives on the kitchen and table: essential forms, everyday gestures and objects that express their time. Meet the authors through their projects, following a path connecting current collections and the archive.
Design drawing. Photograph from the company archive.
Tarcisio Zani
From cookware research to Karen and Vickers, design develops through direct engagement with steelworking.
Andrea Zani
Tullio brings his work into the brand’s story through cookware whose forms and details accompany everyday gestures.
Liliana Bonomi
Knowledge of manufacturing processes informs object design. Stripes, Planetarium and Elaios express different sides of her research.
Konstantin Grcic
Passami il Sale, Al Dente and Accento connect essential design language, function and the character of steel.
Ettore Sottsass
La cucina sapiente e la tavola contenta, begun in 2004, brings together cookware, cutlery and serving objects in an exploration of everyday life.
Andries Van Onck and Hiroko Takeda
Serafino cutlery explores the relationship between form and gesture, drawing inspiration from the ginkgo leaf.
Tapio and Sami Wirkkala
Finlandia records a meeting with Finnish design and an exploration of table-object proportions.
F. A. Porsche
Impulse interprets cookware as a coherent system of components and functions.
Isao Hosoe
With Mach, the coffee-making object becomes a field of research into form, identity and use.
Angeletti and Ruzza
Zero’s joins the history of serving through design dedicated to everyday objects.
