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When culinary art meets tattoo art, a story of steel, skin and passion is created: top chef Paride Giuri not only has his personalized Santoku knife from TYPEMYKNIFE® engraved, but also tattooed. The flames, symbols and messages on the blade reflect his culinary identity – and now also adorn his skin. A creative project with depth that shows how individual a knife can be.
The initial ignition - fire, steel and a bit of madness
When the knife gets under your skin - Paride Giuri's tattoo knife from TYPEMYKNIFE®
Marketing a kitchen knife store with a 3D engraving configurator is either a story of fire and iron, classic storytelling of the cutlery industry, or you have various chefs or barbecue enthusiasts, as well as bloggers who act as ambassadors for an online store like TYPEMYKNIFE®.
We have already worked with various heroes in the kitchen from the star scene, as well as media personalities, but we always prefer personal contact.
Of course, what excites us most are the synergies that develop from personal relationships with our ambassadors.
Such a fantastic relationship and contact has also developed with Paride Giuri. The tip came from our revered Meta Hiltebrand, for whom we developed a unique blade design back in the summer of 2022.
Admittedly, after the initial idea, it was not at all clear whether we would ever find a protagonist who would like the whole thing.
A tattoo on the blade like on the skin, send di no ganz bacha? Freely translated from Swabian, Do they still have all their cups in the cupboard?
Yes, all our cups are still there and we were right with our idea.
We have already worked with various heroes in the kitchen from the star scene, as well as media personalities, but we always prefer personal contact.
Of course, what excites us most are the synergies that develop from personal relationships with our ambassadors.
Such a fantastic relationship and contact has also developed with Paride Giuri. The tip came from our revered Meta Hiltebrand, for whom we developed a unique blade design back in the summer of 2022.
Admittedly, after the initial idea, it was not at all clear whether we would ever find a protagonist who would like the whole thing.
A tattoo on the blade like on the skin, send di no ganz bacha? Freely translated from Swabian, Do they still have all their cups in the cupboard?
Yes, all our cups are still there and we were right with our idea.
Paride Giuri the top chef from Zurich as the leading actor
A top chef from Zurich, not entirely unknown in the Swiss gastronomy scene, visits TYPEMYKNIFE®
Paride works for a very innovative gastronomic company, Miteinander GmbH, which operates countless interesting gastronomic units such as the Stall Valär in Davos, as well as young and attractive gastronomic and food concepts in Zurich.
Paride Giuri is the son of southern Italian seasonal workers, born in Davos. He also began his interesting career as a chef there in the beautiful and fashionable ski resort.
This path has made him one of the most influential food and gastronomy developers for Miteinander GmbH to this day. Paride is responsible for 5 gastronomic outlets of Miteinander GmbH as executive chef.
A challenging job that involves a great sense of responsibility. Paride creates food concepts and develops recipes for the Miteinander GmbH catering companies.
The food concepts are adapted to suit the respective location, the spirit and the concept.
It goes without saying that young people in a hip city like Zurich have different preferences to those in sophisticated Davos.
Paride has the flexibility to adapt perfectly to diverse structures and to adapt its recipes and food concepts to the customer’s taste.
If you would like to find out more about Paride, you are welcome to visit our blog: Paride Giuri a top chef from Zurich.
Paride works for a very innovative gastronomic company, Miteinander GmbH, which operates countless interesting gastronomic units such as the Stall Valär in Davos, as well as young and attractive gastronomic and food concepts in Zurich.
Paride Giuri is the son of southern Italian seasonal workers, born in Davos. He also began his interesting career as a chef there in the beautiful and fashionable ski resort.
This path has made him one of the most influential food and gastronomy developers for Miteinander GmbH to this day. Paride is responsible for 5 gastronomic outlets of Miteinander GmbH as executive chef.
A challenging job that involves a great sense of responsibility. Paride creates food concepts and develops recipes for the Miteinander GmbH catering companies.
The food concepts are adapted to suit the respective location, the spirit and the concept.
It goes without saying that young people in a hip city like Zurich have different preferences to those in sophisticated Davos.
Paride has the flexibility to adapt perfectly to diverse structures and to adapt its recipes and food concepts to the customer’s taste.
If you would like to find out more about Paride, you are welcome to visit our blog: Paride Giuri a top chef from Zurich.
The development of the blade and tattoo design and the story behind the motifs.
We commissioned Irene Mangieri from Gold & Silver Tattoo Studio in Schwäbisch Gmünd to implement the blade design. Irene and her husband Dario successfully run a very high-quality studio with high standards of individual design.
Many years of experience in implementation and graphic design, as well as cooperation with international tattoo artists characterize this studio.
Since a blade always embodies two sides of a coin, or sharp metal, it makes sense that two sides of a blade can also be lasered with one story.
For his design, Paride chose a Santoku blade from the Coltelleria Saladini Scarperia Firenze ( Link Shop)
A large knife, with a 21cm long blade and a beautiful olive wood handle in a wonderfully curved handle shape.
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Many years of experience in implementation and graphic design, as well as cooperation with international tattoo artists characterize this studio.
Since a blade always embodies two sides of a coin, or sharp metal, it makes sense that two sides of a blade can also be lasered with one story.
For his design, Paride chose a Santoku blade from the Coltelleria Saladini Scarperia Firenze ( Link Shop)
A large knife, with a 21cm long blade and a beautiful olive wood handle in a wonderfully curved handle shape.
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The left blade side of a tattoo knife
Paride is known to have a soft spot for fire. Of course, as a professional chef, the subject of fire is not very far-fetched. So flames must appear on the blade.
A crab as a reminder of his hobby, Italian Mediterranean cuisine. After all, his home in Italy is strongly influenced by Mediterranean fish and seafood.
And of course, the classic Qui Chef phrase should then appear. A confirmation that when the chef announces the guests’ orders at the pass, everyone in the team answers Qui Chef. This is considered understood and registered.
Of course, the chef must then be certain that the work of the individual chefs is working and “on time” when the dishes are called off.
Qui Chef – Yes Chef, more than just a confirmation of an order from the head chef. Mercy on whoever answered Qui Chef and then can’t deliver appropriately when the bull makes a pass. The novice will not forget this in a hurry.
A crab as a reminder of his hobby, Italian Mediterranean cuisine. After all, his home in Italy is strongly influenced by Mediterranean fish and seafood.
And of course, the classic Qui Chef phrase should then appear. A confirmation that when the chef announces the guests’ orders at the pass, everyone in the team answers Qui Chef. This is considered understood and registered.
Of course, the chef must then be certain that the work of the individual chefs is working and “on time” when the dishes are called off.
Qui Chef – Yes Chef, more than just a confirmation of an order from the head chef. Mercy on whoever answered Qui Chef and then can’t deliver appropriately when the bull makes a pass. The novice will not forget this in a hurry.
The right blade side of a tattoo knife
Flames should play a special role here too. Only now the message Fucking Perfect is added in large letters.
What is Fucking Perfect all about? It goes without saying that work in the kitchen must always be as perfect as possible. Nothing is crueler for the fine dining guest than sloppy and loveless preparation.
However, one person who has taken this synonym of “it must be fucking perfect” to the extreme is the 3-star chef Sergio Herman from Holland, about whom a documentary was made in 2015. The godfather, role model and source of ideas for the blade design that inspired Paride Giuri.
Sergio Herman, FUCKING PERFECT is an intense story about perfectionism, ambition and sacrifice. As James M. Barrie wrote in Peter Pan: You can have everything in life if you sacrifice everything else for it.
You can find the story and a short trailer for Sergio Hermann at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNmEj8qAOJc
What is Fucking Perfect all about? It goes without saying that work in the kitchen must always be as perfect as possible. Nothing is crueler for the fine dining guest than sloppy and loveless preparation.
However, one person who has taken this synonym of “it must be fucking perfect” to the extreme is the 3-star chef Sergio Herman from Holland, about whom a documentary was made in 2015. The godfather, role model and source of ideas for the blade design that inspired Paride Giuri.
Sergio Herman, FUCKING PERFECT is an intense story about perfectionism, ambition and sacrifice. As James M. Barrie wrote in Peter Pan: You can have everything in life if you sacrifice everything else for it.
You can find the story and a short trailer for Sergio Hermann at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNmEj8qAOJc
The Gold & Silver Tattoos studio from Schwäbisch Gmünd gets under your skin
We came across Irene and Dario Mangieri so that we could finally get the tattoo into our skin and find a studio that had experience and was pretty cool to have for this project.
After a lot of research, we were impressed by the quality of their work. The fact that the studio is also located in Schwäbisch Gmünd at our TYPEMYKNIFE® headquarters made it all the better.
Convincing Paride to have the blade design engraved on his skin by an unknown tattoo artist was not so easy.
Everyone who has tattoos has a relationship of trust with their studio. After all, tattoos are difficult to remove from the skin.
After a lot of research, we were impressed by the quality of their work. The fact that the studio is also located in Schwäbisch Gmünd at our TYPEMYKNIFE® headquarters made it all the better.
Convincing Paride to have the blade design engraved on his skin by an unknown tattoo artist was not so easy.
Everyone who has tattoos has a relationship of trust with their studio. After all, tattoos are difficult to remove from the skin.
There are many stories about cover ups to clear up the misguided advice or artistic failure.
What convinced Paride that he was in good hands at this Gold & Silver Tattoo Studio was the reputation and the positive reviews from the guests.
In any case, Paride had a lot of fun that day and was happy with the result.
It was also a surprise for us that he didn’t stop at one tattoo, but had both calves decorated with the left and right blade design.
It was his tattoo artist Irene Mangieri’s idea to decorate the other calf as well. Paride’s spontaneity in agreeing to a second, sweetly painful session was a charming, unplanned change of plan with a first-class result.
What convinced Paride that he was in good hands at this Gold & Silver Tattoo Studio was the reputation and the positive reviews from the guests.
In any case, Paride had a lot of fun that day and was happy with the result.
It was also a surprise for us that he didn’t stop at one tattoo, but had both calves decorated with the left and right blade design.
It was his tattoo artist Irene Mangieri’s idea to decorate the other calf as well. Paride’s spontaneity in agreeing to a second, sweetly painful session was a charming, unplanned change of plan with a first-class result.
The aftershow and our future collaboration.
Of course, we took a closer look at the artwork on the skin and took a few more shots for the family album.
The fact that we then went out for dinner together in the evening and had a delicious after-show drink until midnight was the perfect end to a successful day.
The result was that we will develop a sound design for Stall Valär and Davos.
We are excited to see how things will continue in the future.
Thank you Paride for your visit, next time we will be in Zurich or Davos!
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