The “Trinava” flower vase recalls the shape of the “Trina” pencil holder from the “Desktop Architecture” series presented in 2006. Made in bone china, it is manufactured in two differen...

The extraordinary success of the “Mediterraneo” Fruit holder by Emma Silvestris in 2006 drove us to explore the potential for expanding this icon into new types of products: Kitchen roll Holder...

This series of “Figure,” figurines, purposeless objects or whatever you want to call them, are presented here for the first time. Their study has been going on since the 1990s but has been kep...

This series of “Figure,” figurines, purposeless objects or whatever you want to call them, are presented here for the first time. Their study has been going on since the 1990s but has been kep...

This series of “Figure,” figurines, purposeless objects or whatever you want to call them, are presented here for the first time. Their study has been going on since the 1990s but has been kep...

This series of “Figure,” figurines, purposeless objects or whatever you want to call them, are presented here for the first time. Their study has been going on since the 1990s but has been kep...

This series of “Figure,” figurines, purposeless objects or whatever you want to call them, are presented here for the first time. Their study has been going on since the 1990s but has been kep...

Once again the constructive principle of the “Blow up” family lends itself perfectly to a classic furniture accessory, in this case a magazine rack.

This series of “Figure,” figurines, purposeless objects or whatever you want to call them, are presented here for the first time. Their study has been going on since the 1990s but has been kep...

This series of “Figure,” figurines, purposeless objects or whatever you want to call them, are presented here for the first time. Their study has been going on since the 1990s but has been kep...

This series of “Figure,” figurines, purposeless objects or whatever you want to call them, are presented here for the first time. Their study has been going on since the 1990s but has been kep...

This series of “Figure,” figurines, purposeless objects or whatever you want to call them, are presented here for the first time. Their study has been going on since the 1990s but has been kep...

(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 ...

The Swiss designer Peter Zumthor is one of the most interesting and courted international architects of the 21st century. He lives and works in his atelier located in an out-of-the-way village in t...

The Swiss designer Peter Zumthor is one of the most interesting and courted international architects of the 21st century. He lives and works in his atelier located in an out-of-the-way village in t...

We felt that the construction method introduced with the “Blow up” family of products - a highly successful invention of the Italian-Brazilian brothers - would lend itself well to a small furni...

Zaha Hadid (Baghdad 1950), like Jean Nouvel, is an architect with whom we started working in the 1980s, but with whom we had not yet developed items for mass production. Having graduated from the A...

The first items of the “Blow up” family, whose production was launched in 2004, registered an immediate international success. This because they brought a wave of fresh air into our domestic la...

The first items of the “Blow up” family, whose production was launched in 2004, registered an immediate international success. This because they brought a wave of fresh air into our domestic la...

The first items of the “Blow up” family, whose production was launched in 2004, registered an immediate international success. This because they brought a wave of fresh air into our domestic la...

The first items of the “Blow up” family, whose production was launched in 2004, registered an immediate international success. This because they brought a wave of fresh air into our domestic la...

Together with the mocha cups illustrated in the preceding chapter, the two large “E-LI-LI” vases, one stainless steel and the other ceramic, are the very first results to be slated for ind...

Together with the mocha cups illustrated in the preceding chapter, the two large “E-LI-LI” vases, one stainless steel and the other ceramic, are the very first results to be slated for ind...

Mug, Press filter coffee maker and Photo frame now complete the “Cactus!” series of objects characterised by their punched metal decoration.

Following a minimalist approach does not necessarily mean turning a design into an abstract form that loses its identification with the item and is not rooted in the public imagination. It is rathe...

After Morrison’s “Candlestick family” comes Danti and Zanzi’s “TURN ME ON”: over there evoking the corolla of a flower that is opening up, over here evoking a slender bulb that remains ...

There is a subtle historic affinity between the “container” theme and the objects in the Alessi catalogue. Since our origins, many of Alessi’s most interesting, successful and image distincti...

“Vague”, an innovative, double Bowl/cakestand (the function can be altered simply by turning the bowl upside-down) and the Candlestick “Notte”.

The successful “Cactus” fretwork series now enhanced with other items: hors-d’oeuvre set, cheese board, trivet, paper napkin holder

UMA is a Tibetan word which can be translated as “in between”; it is also the name of one of the four principal philosophical schools of Tibetan Buddhism and describes the position between “t...

Like many of his other designs, this Alessandro Mendini candlestick has distant origins. The twisted TOTEM/COLUMN recurs in many of his designs as far back as the 1970s and 1980s. My personal inter...

Born in Tel Aviv in 1951, Ron Arad lives in London, where he studied at the Architectural Association and now works as a designer, architect and teacher. He is famous throughout the world, particul...

This project (together with Smoki Christiani, Berta Youssouf, O'Kelvin, Mimi Bayou and Liberté/Pensées/Secrets) was originally produced by the small French company Owo of Montfort L'Amaury of Pat...

The projects designed by Marianne Brandt, Helmut Schulze, HansPrzyrembel, Otto Rittwegger e Josef Knau, are produced under licence of the Bauhaus-Archiv in Berlin.

This product was originally manufactured for a few years in silver-plate by Bacci of Bologna. We took it over in 1986, when Castiglioni made some modifications to its size and shape.