Rationale

 The "Crossed" brings a brand new style and look to the pre-existing kitchen tool Mezzaluna. The redesigned products grants luxury via its phenomenon new handles. The entire new look of the crossed wooden handles attached on the sharp shiny blade surface helps the consumers attain the desired altered design. 

This design as well as having ability to satisfy the consumers luxury desires, also offers a playful touch on everyday exercise of kitchen cutting (many would like to try position their hands in different directions like cross hands and play around while using it). Having little changes that would make the work joyful is definitely worth trying.

Besides playfulness and luxury and design mentioning the material used is very fundamental.

the material desired to be used for the blade would be stainless steel as its usage and quality has been proved over the decades and centuries of knife usage, its also pretty affordable.

The material used on the handles would differ from time to time . It would be updated with the material that is most desired in market, as in such a season that bamboo collections are out bamboo would be the best material to start with.

As it comes to shapes,the almost circular shape of the whole mezzaluna basically follows the shape of blade and slightly goes off to its own shape suitable for the grip, this gives the design a curvilinear shape. This geometrical shape is also repeated by the screws that attach the blade and handles together on each end of the upper blade.  The curvilinear handle shapes makes it more ergonomic and gives extra grip space for those that have difficulty with their grip position on the typical mezzaluna designs out in market.

On the prototype model that is being presented MDF wood is chosen for all pieces of the product and painted in desired colours to present what the final design.