BERLIN
1996
The BERLIN collection succeeds in doing what only the city that gave its name to this unconventional design can do: creating something beautiful from the symbiosis of contradictions. It combines tradition and innovation, classic form and new accents. The convex-concave interplay of the plate rims and the reproduction of the perfect spherical shape in the jug and lid handle in contrast to the characteristic, inverted handle, prove the compatibility of opposites, as its designer, the Italian Enzo Mari, once did. Developed in 1996 by Mari in collaboration with the designers at KPM Berlin, the series is characterized by its functional character, which earned it the "iF Design Award". Gone are the days of firmly defined shapes and norms on the board and table - the collection offers as much creative scope as its namesake, the city of Berlin.