Taste
A sinuous drop shape makes minimal design feel tactile and expressive.
Taste is essential and minimalist, but its sinuous drop-shaped handle creates a strong emotional impact. Crafted in 18/10 stainless steel with solid monobloc table knives.
About the series
Taste, made for the table
The carefully finished stainless steel brings clarity to the collection’s lines, proportions and decorative details, creating a refined play of light across the table.
Crafted in 18/10 stainless steel, the cutlery combines a refined surface with the durability required for professional service and daily dining. The table knives use monobloc construction, forming a solid and continuous piece without a joint between handle and blade.
Sambonet is an Italian tableware brand with a cutlery tradition dating to 1856. Its collections move between classical references, modern design research and expressive surface treatments, combining Italian style with practical table use.
Series guide
Questions about Taste
Can a minimalist piece of cutlery still create an emotional reaction?
Taste is built around that contradiction. Sambonet describes the collection as essential and minimalist, yet capable of a strong emotional impact. Its personality comes not from ornament, but from the soft, flowing drop-shaped silhouette and the way that form sits in the hand.
Why is the drop shape the key to understanding Taste?
The gently tapered handle gives Taste its recognisable rhythm. Rather than relying on sharp geometry or decorative detail, the collection uses one continuous, sinuous form to create identity, allowing simplicity to feel expressive rather than anonymous.
What happens when minimalism becomes softer rather than stricter?
Taste moves away from the idea that contemporary design has to feel severe. Its lines remain clean and reduced, but the rounded transitions and drop-shaped handle introduce a more sensual quality, making the collection feel approachable as well as modern.
Why can the same Taste design feel completely different in steel, black, gold or champagne?
Because the form is simple enough to let the finish take on a larger role. Sambonet offers Taste across Mirror, Antique and multiple PVD colours, so the silhouette remains constant while the atmosphere can shift from bright and restrained to warmer, darker or more dramatic.
When does simplicity stop being neutral and become personality?
When the proportions are distinctive enough to be remembered. Taste has very little decorative information, yet the combination of its tapered handle, flowing transitions and surface finishes gives it a clear identity at the table. Minimalism becomes expressive rather than invisible.