Alessi to Celebrate Universal Children’s Day November 20, 2008

Alessi, has supported AiBi, the International "Amici dei Bambini" association, since 2006 with  different projects to help the dreams of abandoned children worldwide come true. To honor this day and until November 22, the window of the Alessi Flagship Store in the heart of Milan will showcase two projects designed to support AiBi.

“Alessandro M. – Sun Dream”
In 2008 Alessandro Mendini has provided his famous corkscrew with a delicate sky-blue costume covered in white clouds, ‘Alessandro M. – Sun Dream’. All proceeds from the sale of the corkscrew will be donated to make the dreams of many abandoned children in orphanages in Brazil and Mongolia become true.


“T-Dream”
2007  saw the launch of ‘T-Dreams’, a collection of T-shirts designed by eight famous international authors showing designs that have never seen the light: Riccardo Dalisi, Stefano Giovannoni, Michael Graves, Martí Guixé, Alessandro Mendini, Aldo Rossi, Philippe Starck, Robert Venturi. The dream of a renowned master of design to help realize the dream of an unprivileged child in orhphanages in Colombia, Nepal and Peru. All proceeds from the sale of the T-Dreams will be donated to AiBi as well.  


10% of purchases made at the Milan Flagship Store between  November 20th  and November 22nd will be donated to Amici dei Bambini.  

With Alessi and AiBi your shopping will donate happiness and hope to someone in need!

July 2007, T-Dream Collection

“Sometimes, in the world’s orphanages, children stop dreaming. Faced with the pain of never seeing their dreams come true, children lose the ability to express their desires, and little by little stop pursuing them. But giving up hope is by far the worst thing that can happen to an institutionalised child. For over twenty years, Amici dei Bambini has worked with orphanages around the world to give abandoned children the fundamental right to a family.

With the help of Alessi, in 2006 the association launched its first project at the Bojarka orphanage in the Ukraine: 50 children who gradually saw the dreams they had expressed in a drawing come true.

The following year, thanks to T-DREAM, a collection of T-shirts by eight leading international designers, funds were raised for 3 new projects in Colombia, Nepal and Perù, to take the dream of Alessi and Amici dei Bambini even further afield.

The tangible results achieved in the first two years encouraged us to renew the partnership in 2008, by launching a special product: Sun Dream, the latest arrival in the collection of corkscrews in the collection designed by Alessandro Mendini.

For this project, Mendini chose to cover his Alessandro M in white clouds, the symbol of dreams and representing the sense of freedom that we want to give abandoned children through dreams.

All the proceeds from the sale of the hand-decorated, limited edition corkscrews in the “Alessandro M.” collection will help to realise the dreams of the children living in orphanages in Brazil and Mongolia.

These are two new stages on the global journey which Alessi and Amici dei Bambini embarked on three years ago, as year after year we encounter growing numbers of children who need the desire to dream.

Our thanks go, once again, to the Alessi family and to Alessandro Mendini and the company’s creative directors, customers, employees and collaborators who continue to believe in the “Factory of Dreams” and are still working to make it a reality.

Marco Griffini
President of Amici dei Bambini