H-Art adds a romantic detail to an otherwise essential silhouette. The handle ends in a discreet heart shape, creating a collection with flowing lines and an expressive signature developed by the Sambonet Design Centre.
18/10 stainless steel. Monobloc / solid-handle table knives. 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.
When designing for the table, the focus is balance, restraint and the feeling of holding something that already belongs in your hand.
The 30-piece H-Art set extends six place settings with six dessert forks, allowing the collection’s defining heart-shaped detail to remain present after the main course. As the table becomes lighter and the gestures smaller, the romantic signature does not disappear; it simply changes scale.
Dessert is often the moment when a meal slows down. In H-Art, the smaller dessert fork carries the same heart-shaped handle detail as the larger pieces, turning the final course into a quieter expression of the collection’s identity rather than an afterthought.
In H-Art, it is. Sambonet integrates the heart into the section of the handle itself, and its geometry allows the knife to rest with the cutting edge positioned perpendicular to the tabletop. The collection’s most recognisable visual gesture therefore also influences how the object can be presented.
Sambonet’s Mirror finish gives the stainless steel a highly polished surface that emphasises the curves and contours of H-Art. Across six settings, reflections move between cutlery, porcelain, glassware and light, making the heart-shaped geometry more visible without adding further ornament.
H-Art received the Good Design Award in 2008 from The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design. Its strength is that the heart is not simply applied as decoration: it is incorporated into the construction and functionality of the object, combining symbolism, ergonomics and a restrained contemporary form.
