antonio saporito architecture + design florence

"The cheeses totem"

2007 Caltavuturo - Palermo - Italy

"The cheeses totem" OBJECT OF ART TO BRING-KNIVES

Description "the cheeses' Totem" it is then before a wrap of art, or contemporarily, an object container that brings 3 knives to use for the cut and the tasting of the cheeses.
The theme of the project reenters in the category "Food Design" of the contest of ideas.
And' also thought as I furnish inside new spaces both for domestic use that commercial.
The design has taken form both through the manual sketch and the thought.
The initial squirts have subsequently taken as soon as form and only the computer has served for making a more realistic idea.
To the utensils formed by three knives with different measures to cut the cheeses, one sculptural wrap of theirs he has been given for welcoming them and to contain them.
Principal idea has been that to draw an unitary element that represented in primis an object of art to which to associate an own function.
"The cheeses' Totem", it is formed from a series of geometric elements in wood with own perspective references and spatial.
Her base of support and to quadrangular section type destrutturata that has been decomposed in the space to form a sculptural composition of it in full harmony with of together.
The knives with the wood handles have a different form among them and they follow with the blades the wrap. From the functional point of view, the knives prepared around two great sides, result lodged in the wood as they were his/her own imprints, thought to welcoming them.
Every knife is suspended to a steel pivot inox on purpose drawn.