Kalerm Model Z Macchina di Caffè Tutalmente Automatica by Nicola Zanetti and Federico Bosque

Kalerm Model Z Macchina di Caffè Tutalmente Automatica by Nicola Zanetti and Federico Bosque is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award d'Argentu in Apparechju Dummesticu Competition Category.

ArgentuApparechju Dummesticu· 2025

Kalerm Model Z Macchina di Caffè Tutalmente Automatica

by Nicola Zanetti and Federico Bosque

Client: Segno Inverso

A' Design Award d'Argentu Winner in Apparechju Dummesticu Category

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The Design

About Kalerm Model Z Macchina di Caffè Tutalmente Automatica

U Mudellu Z hè una macchina di caffè tutalmente automatica chì prisenta un disignu micca cunvinziunale chì si stacca da l'estetica tradiziunale. Mentre a vista di fronte hè fucalizzata nantu à a facilità d'usu cù un grande schermu tattile induve centinaie di ricette di caffè ponu esse scelte è persunalizate, u beccuciu di caffè autoregulante si move in funzione di a tazza è di a ricetta scelta. Luci ambientali è una grande cornice argentata in forma di C rendenu u pruduttu ricunniscibile è cù una forte identità di disignu. I tubi d'acqua calda, di vapore è di latte montatu facenu u Mudellu Z una macchina di caffè prufessiunale cumpleta.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award d'Argentu

Kalerm Model Z Macchina di Caffè Tutalmente Automatica hè un vincitore di u premiu A' Design Award d'Argentu, una ricunniscenza straordinariamente prestigiosa attribuita à i disegni di alta gamma, splendidi è impressiunanti. I vincitori d'Argentu sò opere tremendamente brillanti è estremamente creative chì illustranu l'espertisa, u talentu è l'acutezza eccezziunali di i so disegnatori. Si aspetta chì Kalerm Model Z Macchina di Caffè Tutalmente Automatica sia una opera maravigliosa di mostra, rimarchevulemente prufessiunale è prufondamente innuvatrice. Stu disegnu vincitore di u premiu A' Design Award d'Argentu hè una invenzione assai nutevule è ammirata chì benefizia è allarga i limiti di l'arte, di a scienza, di u disegnu è di a tecnulugia. Kalerm Model Z Macchina di Caffè Tutalmente Automatica hè una creazione assai invidiata chì evoca disideri, introduce sentimenti pusitivi è accende stupore è maraviglia.

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: This cutting-edge fully automatic coffee machine redefines modern coffee brewing with a bold, unconventional design that breaks away from traditional aesthetics. Its sleek, angular structure, combined with premium metallic finishes and dynamic LED accents, gives it a futuristic, high-tech appeal, making it a statement piece in any environment.
Its unconventional, modern mesthetics, makes it unique and recognizable, setting a new standard in coffee machine appearence.
Dimensions & Packaging: 676 x 370 x 786 h mm
Tags: coffee, machine, automatic, cappuccino, modern, outstanding, full automatic, horeca, steam, touch display, full automatic, coffee machine
Production Technology: Injection molding for ABS and other plastic parts. Some parts are metal injected parts to give structure to the body and communicate strongness outlook. Touch display full color led. Some led decoration over the body with light guide cover to spread the light omogenously.
Design Challenge: Matching the view of a innovative outlook with the mechanical needs and the cost budget was a real challenge and finding solutions that balance all the aspects involved was really hard.
Research: The machine was developed basing on an engineering mock up that was analyzed adn modified basing on the user experience research results. The team of designers and engineers worked together to adapt the outlook design and the user experience to the technichal needs and viceversa. The test revealed some issues that drove us to a review of the design and some details for the best performance and usability.
Inspiration: The inspiration behind this groundbreaking coffee machine was a bold vision: to break away from the conventional "boxy" designs that dominate the market and create something truly unconventional, dynamic, and futuristic.
Traditional coffee machines often follow a rigid, rectangular form, prioritizing function over visual impact. We challenged this norm by thinking outside the box. Our goal was to craft a machine that is both a high-performance appliance but also an innovative statement piece.
Project Duration: the project was developed by a team of designers and engineers between Italy and China and took around 1 year between July 2023 and June 2024 and was discosed to public during the Shanghai Hotelex exhibition in 2024
Operation Flow: easy to use with a big colorfull and complete touch screen, the user need to place his cup and press the kind of coffee he likes to have. Operator will provide to refill the beans and coffee powder in the hoppers. Water is provided by direct connection to water service and used coffee cakes are collected in a huge container inside the machine that will be cleaned up by operator. This machine is studied for convenient stores and hotels where an operator can prepare the coffee for you, where steam or hot water are needed. The coffee spout is self adapting to the high of the cup you will use.
Team Members: Nicola Zanetti, Federico Gonzalez Bosque