The production process that has lead to Combina brings about something very special and new.

All started from a question, an intriguing question for designers: to create a new door knob able to satisfy the increasingly strong market request for new solutions. A request for modern and integrated design, a wide choice of colours and finishes, the possibility of changing look on a later stage and offer the opportunity of a product on demand.

 

POLI.design, the Research and Development department of Politecnico di Milano (the engeneering university of Milan), accepted the challenge and structured a team of 12 young designers, coordinated by three professors, well known and appreciated professionals themselves. The project path evaluated the problem on a 360-degree perspective, thus singling out all sensitive issues: from setting changes for Meroni knobset (offices, schools, hospitals, airports and stations), to the identification of new application areas. This new interaction model has proven to be effective.

 

Among the various projects presented, three have been brought to development stage.

The first one to reach now the market is Combina, one of its pluses being the use of the well-known PremiApri mechanism, the well tested core of the Nova line for the last 35 years. A new and revolutionary knob, for its attitude to respond to project objectives and its flexibility to be composed in various ways.