Archive, discontinued
Serafino Zani archive, ideas endure
The collections in this section are discontinued. We preserve them to explore design history and help people looking for information about an object they already own. Where stock remains, you can follow links to items available on ZaniShop. Remaining stock does not indicate resumed production.
Cookware
Olympia
Olympia’s rounded forms recall a chapter in steel cookware, with distinctive volumes and carefully finished surfaces.
Stripes
Designed by Liliana Bonomi, Stripes explores the rhythm of surfaces and utensil form, a chapter in the dialogue between design and steel.
Al Dente
Konstantin Grcic applies his essential design language to cookware, with a distinctive attention to the relationship between form and function.
Scandia
Scandia forms part of Serafino Zani’s steel cookware history, offering a view of the proportions and practical details of its period.
Bon Appetit
Bon Appetit belongs to Ettore Sottsass’s exploration of the kitchen and table, interpreting everyday objects through a personal design language.
Genesis
Genesis, designed by Tarcisio Zani, documents the company’s exploration of steel cookware form and construction.
Epica
Epica is preserved in the cookware archive. Available documentation helps identify its formats and reconstruct the range.
Solaris
Solaris marks a historical stage in Serafino Zani’s research, spanning cookware and objects for the table.
Chef
Chef records a chapter in everyday cooking, expressed through steel and a coordinated family of cookware.
Subito
Subito enters the archive as a pressure-cooking project. Anyone using an existing example must follow its specific instruction manual.
Impulse
F. A. Porsche brings a cookware interpretation to Serafino Zani in which each component contributes to the overall design.
Nivis
Nivis remains available to explore as a chapter in cookware history. Coating details and use instructions must refer to the original model.
Thema
Thema preserves an exploration of cookware proportions and everyday cooking gestures, with useful information for existing owners.
Oasi
Oasi’s cylindrical bodies and polished or satin finishes document an exploration of steel cookware proportions and surfaces.
Syntesi
Syntesi preserves a chapter in research into cookware and coatings. Use information remains specific to the original model and its documentation.
Grand Hotel Cuisine
Grand Hotel Cuisine joins the cookware archive and the dialogue between design and everyday life, preserving documented objects and details.
Zeta
Contemporary with Solaris, Zeta brings the cylindrical body and broad handles of Tarcisio Zani’s design into the archive.
Magistra
Magistra spans cookware and serving, linking kitchen objects through an essential design and steel finishes.
Sthilo
Sthilo preserves a historical interpretation of steel cookware, with documented model details that are not transferred to today’s ranges.
Cutlery
Accento
Konstantin Grcic interprets cutlery through an essential, distinctive line. Accento preserves the character of a design conceived through use.
Cinque Stelle
Cinque Stelle cutlery and utensils belong to Ettore Sottsass’s work for Serafino Zani, connecting kitchen culture and dining rituals.
Kyoto
Kyoto remains in the cutlery archive to document the brand’s range of design languages. Sets and individual pieces follow their original pack contents.
Ravello
Ravello records one of the dining interpretations in the historical catalogue, with documentation and links to any remaining items.
Elizabeth
Elizabeth preserves its design and table-service compositions in the archive. Remaining pieces may help complete an existing service.
Lubenice
Lubenice forms part of Serafino Zani’s cutlery heritage, preserved as a reference for its design and for identifying individual pieces.
Serving
Festa
Festa remains in the serving archive, with documentation to rediscover objects and details of a discontinued collection.
Giocorotondo
Giocorotondo explores serving through relationships between objects, shapes and the table. Its page preserves the design and identifies any remaining stock.
Finlandia
The project by Tapio and Sami Wirkkala marks a chapter in Serafino Zani’s dialogue with Finnish design, explored through function and proportion.
Planetarium
The bowl service by Liliana Bonomi and Tarcisio Zani explores combinations of different diameters. An early-1980s project preserved in the archive.
Passami il Sale
Launched with Konstantin Grcic in 2007, Passami il Sale connects everyday utensils with an essential design language. Its page explores the programme and its object families.
Offerta
Offerta belongs to Ettore Sottsass’s programme for Serafino Zani. Serving and giving inspire objects that enter into dialogue with the table.
Mach
Mach, designed by Isao Hosoe, documents research into coffee-making objects. Parts and use advice require exact identification of the model and version.
Zero’s
Zero’s brings together serving objects by different designers. The archive preserves the collection’s ideas and credits each object to its author.
Elaios
Elaios, designed by Liliana Bonomi, joins the serving-object archive, helping identify the product and find its documentation.
Otello
Otello, designed by Tarcisio Zani, is preserved as part of the exploration of table objects, with images and historical project information.
Vale
Liliana Bonomi’s project combines steel and glass in serving objects, with soft forms and measured attention to dining gestures.
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