Designed by Anna Castelli Ferrieri, Hannah offers a new interpretation of a classical table object. Its controlled geometry and considered proportions earned the collection the prestigious ADI Compasso d’Oro Award.
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.
Across twelve complete place settings, Hannah stops behaving like a collection of individual objects and begins to create a larger visual rhythm. Anna Castelli Ferrieri’s balance of function, proportion and tactile harmony is repeated from guest to guest, giving a large table coherence without relying on ornament.
They reveal what makes the collection so disciplined. Hannah won the ADI Compasso d’Oro in 1994 not because it transformed cutlery into spectacle, but because it reconsidered a familiar object intelligently. At a table for twelve, that clarity becomes especially visible through repetition.
Sambonet describes Hannah through tactile harmony as well as visual style. The pieces are designed to be experienced through grip, weight and proportion, while the monobloc knife adds a particularly solid sensation in the hand. The collection therefore rewards touch as much as observation.
It remains on the table. The sixty-piece set includes twelve dessert forks and twelve tea spoons, allowing Hannah’s design language to continue after the larger dinner pieces have been cleared. Even the quieter final stage of the meal remains part of the same considered system.
Because her work was fundamentally concerned with designing objects for real life rather than isolated display. When twelve people simultaneously eat, hold, lift and return the same forms to the table, Hannah becomes what industrial design is meant to be: one carefully resolved idea multiplied through everyday use.
