The Chin Family
Designed by Stefano Giovannone with Rumiko Takeda in collaboration with the National Palace Museum Taiwan for Alessi 2007
Part of Alessi’s collection of the 2007, the Chin Family are a wonderful addition to the kitchen! Made in collaboration with the National Palace Museum of Taiwan, the Chin family embraces and celebrates Chinese culture and history. Designed by Stefano Giovannoni, each member fulfils a specific kitchen function.
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- Salt and Peppr Set
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- Cell Phone Charm
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- Set of two bottle caps
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- Kitchen Timer
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- Key Ring
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- Bookmarker
The tall King and Queen Chin with their subtle flora print, replace your salt, pepper or spice grinder. The small Mr and Mrs Chin salt and pepper set stand beside a cute lotus flower. With a matching kitchen timer and the adorable egg cup, the Chin Family can make you smile at any meal. Using a wonderful palette of vibrant pink, blue, gold and green, these figures feature a sophisticated style and rich character.
But that’s not everything! There are lot of other brothers in the big Chin Family: the King and Queen magnets and the bottle caps, and then the cell phone charm, the key ring and bookmarker, all made in thermoplastic resin and instead of the usual method of casting a single piece of plastic from a single injection, the character-objects are made with separate molds (head, hat, body, foot, pompom) which are then assembled and hand painted.
The Beauty of Eating
Bettina – design Future Systems, for Alessi 2008
The “Bettina” table service, designed by Jan Kaplicky of Future Systems, a group of architects who has already worked with Alessi in 2003 on “Tea & Coffee Towers”, is certainly Alessi’s most innovative design in this area. It took a long time to complete ( over 4 years), many sketches, designs and prototypes to achieve the elegant and simple result.
Beauty, flexibility, practicality are the keywords.
The Table set
The set includes plates, platters, bowls and cups (coffee, tea and mugs) and the cutlery set. The items are multifuctional: for example the saucer can be used for both the mocha cup and the tea cup, or can be used as a plate for a dessert or a side dish.
the production material is thick porcelain.
The Glassware
One of the most peculiar and curious characteristics is the glassware which consists of two separate parts, the cup in crystal clear glass and the base. The design makes them appear to be a single element, but reality is very different!!
Metropolitan Style
Clear forms that effectively follow the given functions. Freedom to fulfil one’s ideas. Spacious and distinctly individual room. Metropolitan is about purism, a study in the fine art of minimalism. It is modern without succumbing to passing fads. And it showcases the room as a uniquely aesthetic living space.
This is what Villeroi & Bock suggest for the Tableware
Collections: New Wave, Dune and Flow
Interior Design Accessories
I’ve moved to Milan a couple of weeks ago…I was equipping my new house with lot of silly stuff I’ve stolen to my sister, Erica. She works in the field of Living-ware: all the accessories people use in their everyday life in their own home. From the tableware to clocks, bathroom and kitchen accessories.
I’ve discovered a new passion for ornaments and tabletops, furnishing an house that should reflect my own style with beautiful pieces of “home” design. For this reason I’ve decided to talk about living-ware and show environment restyled by designers such as Carlo Alessi, Ron Arad and Hiroshi Ono using creativity and innovation!
In particolar I will focus on Alessi, one of the “Fabbriche del design italiano”, and maybe the most important, wellknown and innovative. Alessi is one of those companies which embodies a typical phenomenon of Italian industrial culture.
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