In Australian aboriginal language, marli means butterfly. For Alessi, “marli” has become a family of objects with an aerodynamic shape which combines with the plasmatic nature of the object. Wi...

In Australian aboriginal language, marli means butterfly. For Alessi, “marli” has become a family of objects with an aerodynamic shape which combines with the plasmatic nature of the object. Wi...

“She symbolises femininity, grace, love. An alchemic symbol of universal harmony: flower of Venus, “Belt of Roses”, an image of regeneration. Loved and revered since ancient times, here she i...

“The new design for Alessi was conceived as a series of curves with the potential to generate a complex family of receptacles. Objects of different shapes and sizes can be placed inside this scul...

The two designs reflect the young Australian’s interest in geometry and mathematics. Alice uses the geometry inherent in her designs and pictures to create three-dimensional sculptural objects. �...

The two designs reflect the young Australian’s interest in geometry and mathematics. Alice uses the geometry inherent in her designs and pictures to create three-dimensional sculptural objects. �...

(In Portuguese “nuvem” means ‘cloud’, alluding to the sort of bird’s nest of aluminium wire, tangled then squashed and spun, that characterises the objects in this series). We finally ...

(In Portuguese “nuvem” means ‘cloud’, alluding to the sort of bird’s nest of aluminium wire, tangled then squashed and spun, that characterises the objects in this series). We finally ...

It seems in recent years that Australia, homeland of the famous Mark Newson, is becoming a crucible of young, dynamic and interesting designers. This large centrepiece revisits a theme already addr...

Okay, we confess that every time over the past few years that we’ve presented a new object in the “CACTUS!” line, we’ve declared that it was the last addition to this especially delightful ...

The theme of decorated household objects has its roots in the origins of mankind, when the first man (or more probably the first woman), having forged a clay cup with her own hands, felt the need t...

The theme of decorated household objects has its roots in the origins of mankind, when the first man (or more probably the first woman), having forged a clay cup with her own hands, felt the need t...

After the “Buckle” watch, here comes “Orloff”. Patricia Urquiola imagined a sort of inverse geodetic dome, transformed into a bowl and small bowl. The project put our deep-moulding technici...

Antonio Cagianelli is a young architect, born in Pisa in 1964. In 1990 he settled in Paris, where he began developing three dimensional art, creating objects made of transparent materials reflectin...

Emma, jewellery designer by trade, let her imagination loose on the submarine world, transferring the weightlessness of its inhabitants into cut and moulded metal - an audacious but successful oxym...

MAGAZINE. Jasper Morrison's family of Alessi objects is increasing in size. These new pieces complete the “Knifeforkspoon” series, which is attracting attention as the leading (and how!) cut...

From Australia, this singular interpretation of the Fruit holder comes from a young designer of Italian descent.

Head of the Department of Architecture and Interior Design at the Royal College of Arts in London, Nigel Coates is considered one of the most original theorists on the British architectural scene. ...

Three new tableware objects by Miriam Mirri, a meticulous and delicate author of design’s more playful language, who has been capable of expressing all her own, personal nuances of warmth.

Despite their quite evident Italian origins, the Campana brothers are actually Brazialian through and through, and they are without doubt to be included amongst the most interesting phenomena of re...

Despite their quite evident Italian origins, the Campana brothers are actually Brazialian through and through, and they are without doubt to be included amongst the most interesting phenomena of re...

Despite their quite evident Italian origins, the Campana brothers are actually Brazialian through and through, and they are without doubt to be included amongst the most interesting phenomena of re...

The young Turkish designer, who already designed for us the great steel wire bowl “Nest“ (2001), suggests “Vague”, an innovative, double Bowl/cakestand (the function can be altered simp...

“Shaman” fretwork returns to the primitive and magical themes so dear to Guido. However, they are now proposed with a tendency to the geometrical as opposed to the figurative approach that has ...

“Shaman” fretwork returns to the primitive and magical themes so dear to Guido. However, they are now proposed with a tendency to the geometrical as opposed to the figurative approach that has ...

“Shaman” fretwork returns to the primitive and magical themes so dear to Guido. However, they are now proposed with a tendency to the geometrical as opposed to the figurative approach that has ...

The first project by Giovannoni, made partly of plastic, is part of the first group of objects created for the Family Follows Fiction operation.

A small but significant addition to the series of bowls with a double wall, this small bowl cleverly exploits the space between the two walls to keep the ice-cream or fruit salad at the right tempe...

Our collaboration with the young Turkish designer started in the early Nineties, when he entered the initial elimination round of the "Memory Containers" operation . This new project for a large cu...

The successful Recinto range of trays and baskets evolved out of a Mendini project from the Alchimia era of the early Eighties when a few dozen examples were craft produced in aluminium.

A fortunate, and rare, example of a new product which is a blend of two classic household products: the Fruit Bowl/Colander earned its creator the 1995 Award of the Conseil National des Arts Culina...

Born in Barcelona in 1941 and active mainly in the field of architecture, Clotet has also created, with great parsimony, some interesting design projects for furniture and household objects. In his...

Born in Barcelona in 1941 and active mainly in the field of architecture, Clotet has also created, with great parsimony, some interesting design projects for furniture and household objects. In his...

Marianne Brandt (1893-1983), the only woman to have worked in the Metallwerkstatt of the Bauhaus, designed most of the objects we have chosen, in the Bauhaus-Archiv, as archetypes in a search for S...

A design inspired by Bruna Peyrano, the owner together with her husband of a small company producing fine chocolate in Turin, for years this chocolate box has provided us with a private supply of a...

While carrying out a study of the Viennese architect Josef Hoffmann, Arnell and Bickford came across a photograph of a basket designed in 1906. This was a prototype which never entered production a...

The 826 comes as a variation on an age-old theme in the history of household products: that of the metal wire basket. This was the first object to emerge from research by the internal engineering d...