Spaghetti on clouds!
Nuvem by Fratelli Campana for A di Alessi
“We had quite a time finding a manufacturing process that would both preserve the exquisitely artisanal, manual, almost sketch-like flavour of the concept while at the same time allowing us to produce it at a reasonable price.”
A di Alessi
The Brazilian brothers Fernando and Humberto Campana have made a creative series of metal objects called Nuvem for Alessi. It contains baskets, plates, and vases of different sizes. Alessi has been struggling with the products for a couple of years to mantain the artisan handmade look and at the same time keeping production costs reasonable. Alessi are now happy to present a new example of the lightness and consistency that is so central to the work of the Brazilian brothers.
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- Basket
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- Oven to table dish and holder
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- Placemat
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- Flower vase
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- Citrus basket
In Portuguese “Nuvem” means ”cloud”, alluding to the sort of bird’s nest of alluminium wire, tangled then squashed and spun, that characterises the objects in the series. They look like tangled spaghetti, but either way the effect is highly effective.
Sleek
Walter Thompson, a marketing agency, asked the designers to create a promotional spoon for Kraft, whose flat section of the handle allowed to insert a commercial writing.
The handle is flat, but beside has an ergonomic relief that permit to firmly grasp a tool that is usually slicky.
20 centimeters long, the spoon, made by polimetilmetacrilato, has been obtained from the chalk shape of a standard and uniform jar. The spoon has: the tip with the same radius of curvature of the jar; the middle part straight in order to completely adhere to the internal face of the jar; and the higher part that follows perfectly the shape of the jarneck.
OrienTales
Designed by Stefano Giovannone with Rumiko Takeda in collaboration with the National Palace Museum of Taiwan for A di Alessi 2008.
A bit like a group photo of a Saturday-morning cartoon’s cast, Stefano Giovannoni and Rumiko Takeda’s OrienTales designs are actually bone-chine tableware invented for Taiwan’s national palace Museum: each hand-finished piece represent an Asian language or symbol.
The Banana Kid monkey is a sugar bowl, Lilt Bird holds soy sauce, lotus is a dessert bowl, Goldfish is an egg cup and the Paradise Bird is a milk pitcher.
This new family of object is part of an ongoing collaboration with the National Palace museum in Taiwan, which began in 2007 with the Chin Family. In fact, the museum set Stefano’s immagination racing, inspiring him to explore the millennial tradition of Chinese applied arts and develop his contemporary interpretation of them.
This interpretation is keeping with the playful style of which our designer is an acknowledged master. A characteristic that, in these designs, takes a very new form. Just like the objects in the “Chin Family”, each piece performs the roles of domestic household objects and is, in part, hand-decorated. The magic of Giovannoni’s design lies in the fact that these objects recall the grace of 18th century ceramic trinkers, while continuing to be utterly contemporary!
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- OrienTales
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- OrienTales
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- Sushi set
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- Soy sauce container
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- Salt and pepper set
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- Set of caps, sugar bowl, salt and pepper set and milk jug
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- Sugar Bowl
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- Salt and pepper set
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- Egg cup
All the pieces are in fine bone-china, melamine or thermoplastic resin, and all are hand-decorated.
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