AL DENTE • Large Oval Baking Dish 40 cm with Stand - SERAFINO ZANI

Baking dish holder in shaped metal (chromed brass), with oval baking dish in cordierite porcelain 40 cm. The high quality porcelain baking dishes, made by the historic Italian company Richard Ginori founded in 1735, are the only ones on the market, made of cordierite porcelain resistant to direct flame and tested for thermal shock (from 250 ° to cooling in running water).

With 'Pass me the salt', Serafino Zani continues his research on a contemporary use of steel as an everyday material, solid and long-lasting but at the same time gracefully elegant, these products tell in an unusual way everyday typologies of the domestic panorama: the tray, the basket, the salad servers. The minimal language of Konstantin Grcic reinterprets steel through basic geometries, asymmetries and clean cuts, like metal origami of extreme simplicity, capable of making the hand of the person who made them felt.

The «Pass me the salt» project, born in 2007 thanks to the creative path undertaken with the designer Konstantin Grcic, includes a range of accessories for the table and kitchen characterized by an innovative design without ever neglecting the functional aspect – characteristic aspects of all Zani production – whose mix expresses an incisive aesthetic power, without superfluous decorative elements. The laser-cut baskets and trays, the Accento cutlery, the Certotamente salad servers in steel wire and the Al Dente cooking tools are the objects created for the Project between 2007 and 2009 which were awarded the prestigious GOOD DESIGN Award 2010 by the Chicago Athenaeum - Museum of Architecture and Design and the European Centre for Architecture Art Design & Urban Studies. An award, also given in 2011 to the Subito pressure cooker – also designed by Grcic and an integral part of the project – which represents international recognition for the research and experimentation of an industrial reality such as that of Serafino Zani, strongly devoted to non-conceptual design.

"Working with Serafino Zani gives me the opportunity to compare my way of working with Italian production on a terrain that I consider very interesting and that I call the Factory-House. Serafino Zani is a contemporary, industrial company that is particularly attentive to design, but at the same time has a very strong bond with its territory and with the work of artisans. It uses industrial means of production without forgetting the knowledge of the workforce. I believe there is great quality in trying to use industrial means, remembering that choosing a technology or a machine is like choosing a tool: both are not valuable in themselves, but because, through the project, they are able to make you feel the touch of the person who made them". Konstantin Grcic

The meeting with Grcic, desired by Roberto Zani, confirms the growth path experienced by the brand, marked by an increasingly careful choice of its interlocutors and aimed at enhancing its identity as a Made in Italy company on an international scale, based on a solid production history that today has over 50 years of experience in the sector. Love for things done well, attention to the relationship between beauty and functionality of the object, search for an innovative and original design: this is perceived in a product made in Italy by Serafino Zani. All the objects created for the program “Passami il Sale” synthesize the innovative and essential design and an unmistakable aesthetic power combined with functionality that well represent the fundamental values ​​of Serafino Zani's production and Grcic's style.

Package includes
1 29cm oval porcelain baking dish, 1 baking dish holder