Cutlery Conca Hollow Handle Orfevre Inox

The new way of thinking about these utensils, the cutlery, in its perfect form is this: knife and short blade with an oblique profile, fork with short tines and slightly concave. This is how Gio Ponti described his designs at the 9th Milan Triennale in 1951.

The rationalism that characterised all his projects is also present in the design of the cutlery, for which the architect/designer analysed, synthesised and exaggerated the formal characteristics of the object. In the new Conca cutlery, Sambonet has transferred the principles of Gio Ponti's theory that functionality and human habits determine the shape of everyday objects.

Through a careful anthropological study, the designer had in fact developed an exact design for each piece in the collection. The knife therefore has a short blade because to cut we only use the tip of the blade, tilted on the plate; the fork has small tines and a large concavity because, again according to Ponti, to pick up the morsel we only use the tip of the tines, and in the concavity of the fork we pick up the sauce.

After sixty years, Sambonet has breathed new life into Gio Ponti's design by bringing to the table a cutlery collection that, through an asymmetry, expresses the contemporaneity that only works of art are able to communicate unchanged over time.

Update: 12/02/4