accento
The novelty launched in 2009 and presented at Macef Spring is the new ‘Accento’ cutlery set, result of a collaboration between Serafino Zani and Konstantin Grcic. All superfluous decoration has been eliminated; it is the essential design which gives t …
tablée
The Tablée cutlery vaunts an impeccable combination of style and nature; it is disposable but completely natural, perfect to the palate, the eye and the hand. Made in natural wood, shaped and rounded in the Baroque style, these pieces add a stylish det …
tools kikka
Sambonet has enriched its homonymous collection of professional pots with a range of kitchen utensils, “Tools Kikka” in stainless steel. Seven different utensils ranging from skimmers to spoons for various purposes, and stirrers in different sizes and …
table-dish-cover
‘Meal tray’ is a ‘formality-free’ object used at places where they need to minimize leftover food, and make meal hour fast and simple such as prison or school etc. We experimented on plan so that such efficient method may be more often used as more ‘we …
Degustare, mangiare, consumare. Declinazioni del food design tra etica, estetica e tecnologia
“There is no love sincerer than the love of food”. (G.B. Shaw) Relishing food implies an intense, high-level cultural experience: sensing that a natural, primitive substance can be magically transformed into the most exquisite delicacy, changes the eve …
area 109 – art and architecture
presentazione/introduction L’architettura è arte testo Marco Casamonti scenari di architettura/architectural scenario Sanaa / Rolex Learning Centre Herzog & de Meuron / Vitra Museum Oscar Niemeyer / Auditorium Zah …
L’architettura è arte
Could we understand the role or value of Leon Battista Alberti, Brunelleschi, Raffaello, Michelangelo – and the list could certainly go on – by choosing, among their different works, the role or value in relation to the discipline practiced? More speci …
Rolex Learning Centre
Designed by the Japanese architectural practice SANAA, led by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, the Rolex Learning Center is a highly experimental building, designed for new ways of study and interaction in the 21st century. Located centrally on the EP …
Auditorium
The building has been subdivided into three blocks, according to the relative structural joints of dilatation. The first block is the Auditorium, the second is the car park, while the third is a annex building. For the Auditorium, an advanced acoustic …
Vitra Museum
The VitraHaus project combines two recurrent themes in the work of Herzog & de Meuron: the archetypal house and elements stacked on top of one another. Given the project requested, involving the presentation of furnishings and household objects, in …