Silver Home Appliances Design · 2025
Kalerm Model Z Full Automatic Coffee Machine
by Nicola Zanetti and Federico Bosque
- A' Design Award 2025 Silver Winner in Home Appliances Design
- Awarded April 15, 2025
- CLIENT: Segno Inverso
- Estimated Number of Design Views: 58,018
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About Kalerm Model Z Full Automatic Coffee Machine
Model Z is a fully automatic coffee machine that shows an unconventional design that breaks away from traditional aesthetics. While the front view is focused on the easy of use with a big touch display where hundreds recipes of coffee can be selected and customized, the self adjusting coffee spout moves accordingly to the cup and selected recipe. Ambient lights and a big C shaped silver frame make the product recognizable and with a strong identity design. Hot water, steam and milk frothed pipes make the Model Z a professional complete coffee machine.
The Kalerm Model Z Full Automatic Coffee Machine by Nicola Zanetti represents a distinguished achievement in contemporary appliance design, where professional-grade functionality converges with refined aesthetic sensibility. This work participates in the broader tradition of elevating utilitarian objects through considered material selection, proportional harmony, and intuitive interface architecture. The designer demonstrates particular accomplishment in balancing the technical demands of commercial beverage preparation with visual sophistication appropriate to diverse hospitality environments. The compositional organization reveals careful attention to user experience hierarchies, positioning the generously scaled touchscreen at optimal viewing height while relegating technical indicators to a secondary visual plane without diminishing their accessibility. The chromatic strategy employs deliberate restraint, allowing the inherent beauty of brushed stainless steel to predominate while introducing strategic accents of cyan illumination and champagne-toned metalwork that elevate the object beyond purely functional equipment toward the realm of considered design artifact. The inclusion of traditional analog pressure gauges alongside the digital interface suggests a thoughtful dialogue between heritage craft and contemporary technology, perhaps acknowledging the enduring appeal of mechanical indicators within an increasingly digitized landscape. The sculptural treatment of the steam wand demonstrates sensitivity to three-dimensional form-making, its sinuous profile introducing organic counterpoint to the prevailing rectilinear geometry. One might observe how the transparent bean hopper at the composition's apex introduces visual lightness, preventing the substantial metal body from appearing excessively monolithic. This work invites consideration of how objects designed for repeated daily interaction might simultaneously serve functional requirements while contributing aesthetic value to their environments, transforming routine beverage preparation into an experience enriched by thoughtful design.
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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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