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Alessi, The Italian Design Company for Homeware and Kitchen Accessories
A giant in the world of contemporary product design, Alessi is a family run Italian business founded in 1921 that describes itself as a worldwide ambassador of Italian design. Alessi is famous for its playful design of affordable objects and appliances for the kitchen and the home created in colorful plastics and stainless steel.
For the designs, Alessi contracts a selection of celebrity architects and designers such as Alessandro Mendini, Ettore Sottsass, Richard Sapper, Achille Castiglioni, Zaha Hadid, Toyo Ito, Tom Kovac, Greg Lynn, MVRDV, Jean Nouvel, UN Studio, Michael Graves (Alessi kettle with the bird shaped whistle - pictured), Philippe Starck (Alessi Juicy Salif citrus squeezer), Jasper Morrison, Hans Hollein, Norman Foster and many more
Alessi Company History
The family history behing the Italian Design Factory...
In 1935, Carlo Alessi, son of Giovanni, was named design chief. In 1945 he ascended to chief executive and designed the coffee service Bombé, an industrial piece manufactured in four sizes. That same year, Carlo was joined in the company by his brother Ettore Alessi. Heading Alessi's technical department in the '50s, Ettore opened the company, in 1955, to collaboration with outside designers, including architects Carlo Mazzeri, Luigi Massoni, and Anselmo Vitale.
In 1970, Alberto Alessi, a recent law school graduate, came to work at Alessi.
By the 1980s, Alberto took over the management of Alessi and launched the Alessi company into the design decade through collaborations with designers and architects such as Alessandro Mendini, Ettore Sottsass, Jasper Morrison, Hans Hollein, Norman Foster, Richard Sapper, and Achille Castiglioni. In 2004 Alessi launched the Tea & Coffee Towers, with a new generation of architects such as Zaha Hadid, Toyo Ito, Tom Kovac, Greg Lynn, MVRDV, Jean Nouvel, and UN Studio.
Among the best known of the company's product range are Richard Sapper's kettle with a two-tone whistle, Michael Graves' kettle with the bird shaped whistle, and Philippe Starck's Juicy Salif citrus squeezer.
In 2006, the company reclassified their products under three lines: A di Alessi (products with lower price points), Alessi (the main collection) and Officina Alessi (the most experimental edition)
Shop owners, design addicts, go and see Alessi products at shows worldwide
Alessi will take part in the fair appointments of 2007 by presenting its novelties of ALESSI, OFFICINA ALESSI and A di ALESSI collections.
10.26.2007 - 12.31.2007Museo Alessi, in collaboration with Münster Sparda Bank, presents the exhibition "Tea & Coffee, Piazza & Towers" curated by Peter Weiss.
24/27 November 2007
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The new Alessi Chin Family of products
"The Chin Family" series for the "A di Alessi" catalogue: a group of characters, each of whom represents a specific household function.
The National Palace Museum in Taiwan hosted on 23 May an event to launch the Museum's new mascot and present "The Chin Family", a project designed by Stefano Giovannoni with Rumiko Takeda, in collaboration with Alessi and the NPM.Big posters featuring all the "members" of The Chin Family were put on display in a specially designed square in front of the main entrance to the Museum.
Stefano Giovannoni held a conference that was open to students and designers. Together with the Director of the Museum, he spoke about the collaboration between Alessi and the National Palace Museum and about the invitation received to envisage and design a mascot for the new 21st century Museum.
From this was born "The Chin Family" series for the "A di Alessi" catalogue: a group of characters, each of whom represents a specific household function.
The event was attended by numerous guests and members of the press as well as by Taiwan's most important television networks. During the launch, ten "Chin Family" sets signed by Stefano Giovannoni were auctioned, with the proceeds going to the Museum Foundation for study grants. The first specially packaged set N°1, that had been signed by both the designer and the Director of the NPM, fetched about %u20AC10,000. That evening, there were news reports about the event on all the main television networks, and Taiwanese shops stocking "The Chin Family" were inundated with customers snapping them up.
How is Alessi evolving?
By Alberto Alessi
The Alessi business venture started in the 1920's and it was highly innovative right from the very start, always ready to experiment and take a more poetical view of the world, though it was very much based on the traditional production methods and materials, such as metal and stainless steel. In recent years many new materials have been introduced, offering to the Alessi designers new expressive possibilities and to customers some surprising new items and wonderful little discoveries. "This project began with the desire to work with the more delicate, intimate, sensorial and confidential needs of people. Our starting point was to reproduce through design the animistic process of object creation common to the world of children's drawings and primitive cultures, going beyond the mere aesthetic, stylistic and cultural aspects. The objects have thus become items to be used for playing, telling stories, giving and enchanting the everyday view, encouraging playfulness and stimulating the flights of fantasy." Alberto Alessi
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Alessi New Products Fall Winter 2007
Three brands for a strong, continually evolving company
All for one, one for all. Spring 2006 is over, but not too far away. The reclassification of Alessi products into three different brands does nothing but bring out success-oriented excellence.
The company based in Omegna has a way of speaking without words with the best contemporary design, exclusive work groups, and strong cultural and aesthetic interests.
Its catalogues grow richer in functional excitement from collection to collection. A workshop of contemporary design that reaches increasingly more ambitious goals. Three brands, each with audience objectives and result targets.
Officina Alessi welcomes the most challenging and refined products with delicate elegance, often crowning projects by internationally renowned authors. The new products for the Fall/Winter presentation are all signed by architects that have taken part in the large meta-project "Tea & Coffee Towers" of 2003: the Teacup with saucer from the series "Fruit basket" designed by Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA and the Mocha cup "SUPA_CUP" with saucer and coordinating coffee spoon by the Australian Tom Kovac will be presented.
Alessi is the main and the most traditional brand, expressing quality, technology and design.
Its Fall/Winter 2007 collection introduces a large number of new objects which are outstanding from the planning point of view, along with some series expansions: the Hand blender "mix.it" by Wiel Arets; the "Colombina collection" Table set by Doriana and Massimiliano Fuksas; the new version of "La Bella Tavola" Table set in bone china by Ettore Sottsass; the new "Tibidabo" Serving set by Kristiina Lassus; the Three-section sugar/tea bags holder by Pierre Charpin; the personal Olive oil taster by Lorenzo Piccione di Pianogrillo and Köbi Wiesendanger; the Trivet with adjustable elements "tripod" by LPWK/Gabriele Chiave; the Stand for oil and vinegar cruets and the Tea/sugar bags holder "CACTUS!" by LPWK/Marta Sansoni; the new items from the "Mediterraneo" series by LPWK/Emma Silvestris; the Wall clock "Blow up" by the Fratelli Campana the Key ring "jalk" by LPWK/Steven Blaess; the new version of the "Alessandro M." Corkscrew by Alessandro Mendini.
A di Alessi is comprised of magic forms, colours, and materials, products which are more accessible to a larger public at decisively lower prices, and always with the mark of excellence. The Fall/Winter collection presents the second part of "The Chin Family" designed by Stefano Giovannoni with Rumiko Takeda; the first issue of the "Figure" project (LPWK/ Massimo Giacon, Marcello Jori and Miriam Mirri), the "Iglù" Cheese board and Tray by Miriam Mirri and the "401" Coffee and tea service by Kristiina Lassus.
Products of the A di Alessi brand are also linked to an intense and profitable partnership with the Ai.Bi., Amici dei Bambini Association. Alessi, as always "The Dream Factory", has established its mission of fulfilling the dreams of less-fortunate children.
Officina Alessi Fall/Winter new products, 2007
Il caffè/tè Alessi
* "SUPA_CUP", Set of two mocha cups in bone china with saucers. design Tom Kovac
* "SUPA_CUP", Set of four coffee-spoons in 18/10 stainless steel. design Tom Kovac
*
"Fruit basket", Set of two tea cups in bone china with saucers. design Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA
Alessi Fall/Winter new products, 2007
"Colombina collection" Table set
design Doriana and Massimiliano Fuksas
Table set made in white porcelain, bone china, black melamine.
* Flat plate in white porcelain.
* Soup plate in white porcelain.
* Dessert plate in white porcelain.
* Serving plate in white porcelain.
* Mat in black melamine.
* Salad bowl in white porcelain.
* Small bowl, deep, in white porcelain.
* Small bowl, shallow, in white porcelain.
* Mocha cup in bone china.
* Small saucer in bone china.
* Small saucer in black melamine.
* Teacup in bone china.
* Large saucer in bone china.
* Large saucer in black melamine.
* Personal salt and pepper castors in bone china.
"Colombina collection" Sugar and cream set
design Doriana and Massimiliano Fuksas
Sugar and cream set in 18/10 stainless steel consisting of:
* Sugar-bowl.
* Creamer.
* Tray in black melamine.
"Colombina collection" Glass set
design Doriana and Massimiliano Fuksas
Glass set in crystal or matt crystal.
* Wine glass.
* Water tumbler.
* Liqueur or aquavit glass.
* Champagne glass.
"mix.it" Hand blender
design Wiel Arets
* Hand blender in 18/10 stainless steel with wall support in thermoplastic resin, in white or black colours. Graduated beaker in SAN.
"Tibidabo" General serving set
design Kristiina Lassus
General serving set in 18/10 stainless steel.
* Set with serving fork and spoon.
* Rice and vegetable spoon.
* Spaghetti serving fork.
"tripod" Trivet
design LPWK/Gabriele Chiave
* Trivet with adjustable elements in chrome-plated zamak.
Sugar/tea bags holder
design Pierre Charpin
* Three-section sugar/tea bags holder in 18/10 stainless steel and PMMA, in three colours, neutral, brown and red.
"Taste-huile" Personal olive oil taster
design by Lorenzo Piccione di Pianogrillo and Köbi Wiesendanger
* Personal olive oil taster in 18/10 stainless steel.
"jalk" Key ring
design LPWK/Steven Blaess
* Key ring in 18/10 stainless steel.
Additions to series and new versions
"La Bella Tavola" Table set
design Ettore Sottsass
Table set in the new bone china version.
* Flat plate.
* Soup plate.
* Dessert plate.
* Round serving plate.
* Oval serving plate.
* Salad bowl.
* Milk jug.
* Sugar bowl.
* Mocha cup with saucer.
* Teacup with saucer.
* Coffee cup with saucer.
"Mediterraneo" Kitchen accessories
design LPWK/Emma Silvestris
Kitchen and table accessories in 18/10 stainless steel or in steel coated with red epoxy resin.
* Kitchen roll holder.
* Paper napkin holder.
* Tealight holder.
* Napkin ring.
* Set of two tablecloth clips.
"CACTUS!" Accessories
design LPWK/Marta Sansoni
* Stand for oil and vinegar cruets in 18/10 stainless steel.
* Tea/sugar bags holder in 18/10 stainless steel.
"Alessandro M." Corkscrew
design Alessandro Mendini
Corkscrew in chrome-plated zamak and PA. Hand-decorated.
2007 limited edition, with progressive numeration.
* "Alessandro M. - Rock"
* "Alessandro M. - King"
* "Alessandro M. - Ghost"
* "Alessandro M. - Angel"
* "Alessandro M. - Devil"
The "Blow up" family
design Fratelli Campana
* Wall-clock in chrome-plated steel, hands in red plastic.
A di Alessi Fall/Winter new products, 2007
"401" Coffee and tea service
design Kristiina Lassus
Coffee and tea service in 18/10 stainless steel.
* Coffee pot
* Teapot
* Milk jug
* Sugar bowl
* Creamer
"Iglù" Cheese board
design Miriam Mirri
* Cheese board in thermoplastic resin with PMMA lid. Available in colours light blue, fuchsia, white.
"Iglù" Tray
design Miriam Mirri
* Rectangular tray with handles in 18/10 stainless steel.
"Ba-ball" Tray
design LPWK - Marta Sansoni
* Round tray with pierced edge in 18/10 stainless steel. Cabochon decoration. Available in bright steel version, or coated in red or black.
The "Figure" project
"Presepe"
design LPWK - Massimo Giacon
o Group of figurines in porcelain.
"Natalino", "Christmas Cow Boy", "Hal Freddo"
design LPWK - Massimo Giacon
* Figurines in porcelain.
"Pinocchino", "Topolone", "Marzio"
design LPWK - Marcello Jori
* Figurines in porcelain.
"Celestino", "Lieto"
design LPWK - Miriam Mirri
* Figurines in porcelain.
Additions to series and new versions
"The Chin Family"
design Stefano Giovannoni, with Rumiko Takeda
in collaboration with the National Palace Museum Taiwan
* "King & Queen Chin", Set of two caps in thermoplastic resin and EVA. Hand-decorated in the colours yellow and red, or green and blue.
* "King & Queen Chin", Set of two magnets in thermoplastic resin. Hand-decorated in the colours yellow and red, or green and blue.
* "King & Queen Chin", Bookmarker in thermoplastic resin. Hand-decorated in the colours yellow and red, or green and blue.
* "Mr. Chin", Key ring in thermoplastic resin. Hand-decorated in the colours yellow, red, green or blue.
* "Mr. Chin", Cell phone charm in thermoplastic resin. Hand-decorated in the colours yellow, red, green or blue.
All for one, one for all. Spring 2006 is over, but not too far away. The reclassification of Alessi products into three different brands does nothing but bring out success-oriented excellence.
The company based in Omegna has a way of speaking without words with the best contemporary design, exclusive work groups, and strong cultural and aesthetic interests.
Its catalogues grow richer in functional excitement from collection to collection. A workshop of contemporary design that reaches increasingly more ambitious goals. Three brands, each with audience objectives and result targets.
Officina Alessi welcomes the most challenging and refined products with delicate elegance, often crowning projects by internationally renowned authors. The new products for the Fall/Winter presentation are all signed by architects that have taken part in the large meta-project "Tea & Coffee Towers" of 2003: the Teacup with saucer from the series "Fruit basket" designed by Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA and the Mocha cup "SUPA_CUP" with saucer and coordinating coffee spoon by the Australian Tom Kovac will be presented.
Alessi is the main and the most traditional brand, expressing quality, technology and design.
Its Fall/Winter 2007 collection introduces a large number of new objects which are outstanding from the planning point of view, along with some series expansions: the Hand blender "mix.it" by Wiel Arets; the "Colombina collection" Table set by Doriana and Massimiliano Fuksas; the new version of "La Bella Tavola" Table set in bone china by Ettore Sottsass; the new "Tibidabo" Serving set by Kristiina Lassus; the Three-section sugar/tea bags holder by Pierre Charpin; the personal Olive oil taster by Lorenzo Piccione di Pianogrillo and Köbi Wiesendanger; the Trivet with adjustable elements "tripod" by LPWK/Gabriele Chiave; the Stand for oil and vinegar cruets and the Tea/sugar bags holder "CACTUS!" by LPWK/Marta Sansoni; the new items from the "Mediterraneo" series by LPWK/Emma Silvestris; the Wall clock "Blow up" by the Fratelli Campana the Key ring "jalk" by LPWK/Steven Blaess; the new version of the "Alessandro M." Corkscrew by Alessandro Mendini.
A di Alessi is comprised of magic forms, colours, and materials, products which are more accessible to a larger public at decisively lower prices, and always with the mark of excellence. The Fall/Winter collection presents the second part of "The Chin Family" designed by Stefano Giovannoni with Rumiko Takeda; the first issue of the "Figure" project (LPWK/ Massimo Giacon, Marcello Jori and Miriam Mirri), the "Iglù" Cheese board and Tray by Miriam Mirri and the "401" Coffee and tea service by Kristiina Lassus.
Products of the A di Alessi brand are also linked to an intense and profitable partnership with the Ai.Bi., Amici dei Bambini Association. Alessi, as always "The Dream Factory", has established its mission of fulfilling the dreams of less-fortunate children.
Officina Alessi Fall/Winter new products, 2007
Il caffè/tè Alessi
* "SUPA_CUP", Set of two mocha cups in bone china with saucers. design Tom Kovac
* "SUPA_CUP", Set of four coffee-spoons in 18/10 stainless steel. design Tom Kovac
*
"Fruit basket", Set of two tea cups in bone china with saucers. design Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA
Alessi Fall/Winter new products, 2007
"Colombina collection" Table set
design Doriana and Massimiliano Fuksas
Table set made in white porcelain, bone china, black melamine.
* Flat plate in white porcelain.
* Soup plate in white porcelain.
* Dessert plate in white porcelain.
* Serving plate in white porcelain.
* Mat in black melamine.
* Salad bowl in white porcelain.
* Small bowl, deep, in white porcelain.
* Small bowl, shallow, in white porcelain.
* Mocha cup in bone china.
* Small saucer in bone china.
* Small saucer in black melamine.
* Teacup in bone china.
* Large saucer in bone china.
* Large saucer in black melamine.
* Personal salt and pepper castors in bone china.
"Colombina collection" Sugar and cream set
design Doriana and Massimiliano Fuksas
Sugar and cream set in 18/10 stainless steel consisting of:
* Sugar-bowl.
* Creamer.
* Tray in black melamine.
"Colombina collection" Glass set
design Doriana and Massimiliano Fuksas
Glass set in crystal or matt crystal.
* Wine glass.
* Water tumbler.
* Liqueur or aquavit glass.
* Champagne glass.
"mix.it" Hand blender
design Wiel Arets
* Hand blender in 18/10 stainless steel with wall support in thermoplastic resin, in white or black colours. Graduated beaker in SAN.
"Tibidabo" General serving set
design Kristiina Lassus
General serving set in 18/10 stainless steel.
* Set with serving fork and spoon.
* Rice and vegetable spoon.
* Spaghetti serving fork.
"tripod" Trivet
design LPWK/Gabriele Chiave
* Trivet with adjustable elements in chrome-plated zamak.
Sugar/tea bags holder
design Pierre Charpin
* Three-section sugar/tea bags holder in 18/10 stainless steel and PMMA, in three colours, neutral, brown and red.
"Taste-huile" Personal olive oil taster
design by Lorenzo Piccione di Pianogrillo and Köbi Wiesendanger
* Personal olive oil taster in 18/10 stainless steel.
"jalk" Key ring
design LPWK/Steven Blaess
* Key ring in 18/10 stainless steel.
Additions to series and new versions
"La Bella Tavola" Table set
design Ettore Sottsass
Table set in the new bone china version.
* Flat plate.
* Soup plate.
* Dessert plate.
* Round serving plate.
* Oval serving plate.
* Salad bowl.
* Milk jug.
* Sugar bowl.
* Mocha cup with saucer.
* Teacup with saucer.
* Coffee cup with saucer.
"Mediterraneo" Kitchen accessories
design LPWK/Emma Silvestris
Kitchen and table accessories in 18/10 stainless steel or in steel coated with red epoxy resin.
* Kitchen roll holder.
* Paper napkin holder.
* Tealight holder.
* Napkin ring.
* Set of two tablecloth clips.
"CACTUS!" Accessories
design LPWK/Marta Sansoni
* Stand for oil and vinegar cruets in 18/10 stainless steel.
* Tea/sugar bags holder in 18/10 stainless steel.
"Alessandro M." Corkscrew
design Alessandro Mendini
Corkscrew in chrome-plated zamak and PA. Hand-decorated.
2007 limited edition, with progressive numeration.
* "Alessandro M. - Rock"
* "Alessandro M. - King"
* "Alessandro M. - Ghost"
* "Alessandro M. - Angel"
* "Alessandro M. - Devil"
The "Blow up" family
design Fratelli Campana
* Wall-clock in chrome-plated steel, hands in red plastic.
A di Alessi Fall/Winter new products, 2007
"401" Coffee and tea service
design Kristiina Lassus
Coffee and tea service in 18/10 stainless steel.
* Coffee pot
* Teapot
* Milk jug
* Sugar bowl
* Creamer
"Iglù" Cheese board
design Miriam Mirri
* Cheese board in thermoplastic resin with PMMA lid. Available in colours light blue, fuchsia, white.
"Iglù" Tray
design Miriam Mirri
* Rectangular tray with handles in 18/10 stainless steel.
"Ba-ball" Tray
design LPWK - Marta Sansoni
* Round tray with pierced edge in 18/10 stainless steel. Cabochon decoration. Available in bright steel version, or coated in red or black.
The "Figure" project
"Presepe"
design LPWK - Massimo Giacon
o Group of figurines in porcelain.
"Natalino", "Christmas Cow Boy", "Hal Freddo"
design LPWK - Massimo Giacon
* Figurines in porcelain.
"Pinocchino", "Topolone", "Marzio"
design LPWK - Marcello Jori
* Figurines in porcelain.
"Celestino", "Lieto"
design LPWK - Miriam Mirri
* Figurines in porcelain.
Additions to series and new versions
"The Chin Family"
design Stefano Giovannoni, with Rumiko Takeda
in collaboration with the National Palace Museum Taiwan
* "King & Queen Chin", Set of two caps in thermoplastic resin and EVA. Hand-decorated in the colours yellow and red, or green and blue.
* "King & Queen Chin", Set of two magnets in thermoplastic resin. Hand-decorated in the colours yellow and red, or green and blue.
* "King & Queen Chin", Bookmarker in thermoplastic resin. Hand-decorated in the colours yellow and red, or green and blue.
* "Mr. Chin", Key ring in thermoplastic resin. Hand-decorated in the colours yellow, red, green or blue.
* "Mr. Chin", Cell phone charm in thermoplastic resin. Hand-decorated in the colours yellow, red, green or blue.
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