ADAMANTPatricia Urquiola 2009K216During the intense collaborative relationship on specific interior projects, we thought of asking Patricia Urquiola to extend the formal research she was carrying out on complex geometries to the handle. Thus was born Adamant, a model in which the decomposition of vo..
AGATEFranca Helg and Franco Albini 1965K116In imagining an object functional to the gesture of grasping a lever to trigger an action and transform space - open or close it - Franco Albini and Franca Helg design a handle with the lightness of a bird's wing or the profile of a flower , taking an expre..
WINGMassimo Iosa Ghini 2009K215In the name, a destiny. As a postmodern-surrealist-nature lover, I was inspired by the fantastic gesture of flying to design a shape that invites lightness, imagining that on the door of our domestic habitat Ala would become a sign of freedom...
ALEXANDRAFerdinand A. Porsche 1989K150I have always admired the work of Ferdinand Alexander Posche, not only in the automobile sector, but also in the many everyday objects that he designed, for his ability to express a strong, very original, sometimes almost provocative line...
ArcRodolfo Dordoni 2010K225BThe Arc model, designed by Rodolfo Dordoni, was born from the search for forms reduced to the minimum terms starting from the behavior of a continuous curve...
ASTEROlivari study 1998K174Aster is a round rosette handle designed by Studio Olivari, the center of the company's research activities, dedicated to the development of new materials and the design of innovative mechanical solutions...
WOODEN ATHENAOlivari Study 2016K1ALBGuilloché is a decorative engraving technique made with special machines which, guided manually, generate a precise, intricate and repetitive pattern on the base material. The "striped" Ligne pattern applied to the best-selling Olivari Diana gives the handle an es..
ATHENA PANIEROlivari Study 2016K1APBGuilloché is a decorative engraving technique made with special machines which, guided manually, generate a precise, intricate and repetitive pattern on the base material. The Panier pattern, wicker weaving of the baskets, applied to the best-seller Olivari Diana,..
ATHENA RANKOlivari Study 2016K1ARBGuilloché is a decorative engraving technique made with special machines which, guided manually, generate a precise, intricate and repetitive pattern on the base material. The "wave" Rank pattern applied to the best-seller Olivari Diana gives the handle reflections ..
AURORAAlessandro Mendini 1994K164The idea of a handle that encloses the magic of glass came from a conversation with Alessandro Mendini. He immediately had the intuition of a drop of transparent glass integrated into or emerging from the metal, and so also the idea of the form...
BEIJINGSteven Holl 2008K208Each project is unique: it is not comparable to any other. Situation, program, place, are unique facts, and so is the idea that guides the drawing, the force that drives it, is generated around this locus of circumstances. In the studio we have set up a laboratory where we..
BiosFranco Sargiani 2006K204As part of Olivari's research on shapes around the theme of the square, Bios is a sort of archetype that uses only this elementary geometry...