antonio saporito architecture + design florence

"Il Leone" silversmiths of Florence

1997 Florence, Italy

The tea & coffee set "I Titani" wishes to be the beginning of a new silver line, ispired by the ancient Greek deity.
"I Titani" moves as a cyclopean mass sculptured by curved walls inside and autside, in torsion full of angles and mysterious spot, which offers andless views that only the perceptible of the cosmos can offer. Now here is the tray, which in it's original folding and egonomical shape, redesign in plant the set line. The peculiarity of these items originates by the simplicity of their main body which becomes the "armonic center" of a geometrical order superimpose other information (traslation, rotation) to reach a volume plastic total complexity full of lightness, where the material follows the shape up to it's limit capacity of resistance. The items show, present themselves inclined planes, concave or convess whit different angles among them, armonizing the function the plasticity, the light reflex that the caracteristical elements of the set.
Another caracteristic element it's the original handle: one part in wood (dark walnut) and apheres in silver with variable diameter. This building particular, other than decorative, creates with cavities (sphere-handle), a handy universal holder for the hand.
Another functional and interesting element of the set, is the realization of two compartments obtained from the sugar-bowl, for the different kinds of sweetening.