Platinum A' Design Award Winner 2023
The symbolic vocabulary of Fabrizio Crisà's Extractor Induction Hob With Knobs communicates through a carefully orchestrated language of form, material, and chromatic restraint that positions this appliance within broader cultural conversations about domesticity, technology, and contemporary lifestyle aspirations. The overwhelming blackness of the glass surface carries archetypal associations with sophistication, mystery, and infinite depth, suggesting a void from which culinary creation emerges, transforming raw ingredients through the invisible forces of electromagnetic induction into nourishment and pleasure. The central circular extraction element functions as an architectural oculus, a symbolic eye or portal that traditionally represents passage between realms, here mediating between the cooking surface and the atmosphere above, drawing away the byproducts of transformation while maintaining environmental purity. The chrome ring encircling this void suggests a sacred boundary, a threshold marker distinguishing functional zones while adding luminous accent that connotes premium quality and precision engineering. The numeric displays glowing in warm vermillion invoke primordial associations with fire and heat, the essential elements of cooking since human prehistory, their ember-like quality connecting advanced technology to ancient practice in a single chromatic gesture. The bilateral symmetry governing the overall composition communicates stability, order, and rational control, values central to contemporary kitchen design philosophy that positions cooking as both creative expression and systematic process. The six cylindrical knobs arranged along the lower edge invoke haptic engagement and manual control, their physical presence offering reassurance that human agency remains central despite technological sophistication, each rotation connecting hand to heating element through intuitive mechanical interface. The weathered concrete backdrop, while serving practical photographic purposes, reinforces associations with architectural materiality and industrial authenticity, suggesting that this appliance belongs within spaces characterized by honest material expression rather than decorative artifice. The overall composition proposes cooking as elevated practice worthy of tools that honor both function and form.
Refined design solutions that cater to top performance in cooking and extraction is marked with Nikolatesla Unplugged. Controlled through fixed click-release knobs with analog touch and feel, providing quick and intuitive access to its features. All elements are incorporated into a bold-lined appearance, developed to intelligently separate the cooking zone from the control area. The cooking and extraction areas are distinguished by the linear central glass flap, which conceals the extraction area.