Kalerm Model Z Machine à Café Entièrement Automatique by Nicola Zanetti and Federico Bosque

Kalerm Model Z Machine à Café Entièrement Automatique by Nicola Zanetti and Federico Bosque is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2025 A' Design Award d'Argent in Design d'Appareils Ménagers Competition Category.

ArgentAppareil Ménager· 2025

Kalerm Model Z Machine à Café Entièrement Automatique

by Nicola Zanetti and Federico Bosque

Client: Segno Inverso

A' Design Award d'Argent Winner in Appareil Ménager Category

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The Design

About Kalerm Model Z Machine à Café Entièrement Automatique

Le Model Z est une machine à café entièrement automatique au design non conventionnel qui rompt avec l'esthétique traditionnelle. La vue de face est axée sur la facilité d'utilisation avec un grand écran tactile permettant de sélectionner et personnaliser des centaines de recettes de café, tandis que le bec verseur auto-ajustable se déplace en fonction de la tasse et de la recette sélectionnée. Les lumières d'ambiance et un grand cadre argenté en forme de C rendent le produit reconnaissable et lui confèrent une identité design affirmée. Les conduits d'eau chaude, de vapeur et de moussage du lait font du Model Z une machine à café professionnelle complète.

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award d'Argent

Kalerm Model Z Machine à Café Entièrement Automatique est lauréat de l'A' Design Award d'Argent, une reconnaissance énormément prestigieuse décernée à des designs haut de gamme, superbes et impressionnants. Les lauréats Argent sont des œuvres tout à fait brillantes et extrêmement créatives qui illustrent l'expertise, le talent et la perspicacité remarquables de leurs concepteurs. Kalerm Model Z Machine à Café Entièrement Automatique est censé être une œuvre merveilleuse, une vitrine de savoir-faire, remarquablement professionnelle et profondément innovante. Ce design lauréat de l'A' Design Award d'Argent est une invention très notable et admirée, qui sert l'art, la science, le design et la technologie et en repousse les limites. Kalerm Model Z Machine à Café Entièrement Automatique est une création très enviée qui éveille les désirs, apporte des sentiments positifs et suscite émerveillement et étonnement.

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