Encounter is precisely the key word, the theme that inspired the Jungle cutlery collection. What does it mean, concretely?
"The encounter, in Jungle, refers first of all to the conviviality that is created at the table. Every table is the story of an encounter: of people and, therefore, of different sensibilities, a bit like in the case of me and Sambonet. The second meaning of encounter, on the other hand, is linked to the history of cutlery: my aim was to imprint on these objects, which must be practical and functional, something apparently very distant from their nature, namely decoration. Cutlery is almost by definition an object in which functionality must prevail over any other requirement. On the other hand, however, there is the increasingly strong appeal that decoration exerts in our time on product design, even on that most closely linked to industrial dynamics. This appeal has ended up conquering Sambonet as well, and I found myself designing 'talking' cutlery, with motifs impressed on both fronts and representing, also, a tactile, poetic, sensual invitation".
