The Alessi store in Milan
Today I’ve been to visit the Alessi store in Milan near San Babila. It was gorgeous!
I’d always seen some Alessi products, at my sister’s home, but enter in those beautiful shop has been stanning…it is enormous and full of an happy atmophere, and see in reality the product I’ve talk about for months it has been fantastic…They are hundreds time more beautiful and interesting than as seen in small picture…You can look to the details, to the briliant color and feel the high quality.
Time is passing by…check it with Alessi!
Alessi Watches
designed by Karim Rashid, Hani Rashid, Patricia Urquiola, Stefano Pirovano, Ettore Sottsass, Rod Arad, Alessandro Mendini, Miriam Mirri, Jorge Pensi, Guido Venturini, Aldo Rossi, Andrea Branzi, Achille Castiglioni, Wiel Arets, Piero Lissoni e Alberto Meda
A watch made by Alessi? Not strange at all! The passion of Alessi for watches begins in the 80s with Achille Castiglioni and Aldo Rossi (who had design the stopwatch called Momento, now a symbolic piece). Then, also many other designers dedicated some of their time to watches: Ron Arad, Alessandro Mendini, Piero Lissoni, Alberto Meda, Patricia Urquiola.
Discover the exclusive design wristwatch collections made by Alessi: men’s watches, women’s watches, children’s watches, stopwatches. Steel or plastic case with leather, steel or plastic strap.
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Last, but not for importance, there is the eccentric Karim Rashid, who, in the year 2005, has designed Kaj, a watch made in polyurethane, essential but imposing and overall colourfull! It has became a cult through the fashion addicted, enough to gain the favor of Carla Sozzani, who has chosen it for her boutique 10CorsoComo (Milan).
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Under the sea!
Mediterraneo by Emma Silvestris for Alessi
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 oxymoron.
The extraordinary success of the “Mediterraneo” Fruit holder by Emma Silvestris in 2006 drove Alessi to explore the potential for expanding this icon into new types of products: Kitchen roll Holder, Paper napkin holder, Napkin ring and Tealight Holders.
The successful and iconic design family named “Mediterraneo”, created by Emma Silvestris in cooperation with Laura Polinoro, has been translated into new types of kitchen utensils (jars and a hook) and bathroom items (all-purpose container, soap dish, and toothbrush holder).
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- fruit holder
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- paper napkin holder
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- tablecloth clips
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- napkin ring
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- kitchen roll holder
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- tealight holder
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- wall hooks
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- kitchen box with hermetic lid
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- tothbrush holder
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- soap dish
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- multipurpose container
All the objects are in 18/10 stainless steel mirror polished, or in steel coloured with a backed-on coating of epoxy resins, red.
P8
Programma 8 by Franco Sargiani and Eija Helander for Alessi 2005
70s: Franco Sargiani and Eija Helander Alessi draw for the “Program 8″, a comprehensive and full of small household objects and modular units based on the same methodology employed by the International style of architecture of that period: the theory of metaprogettazione to open system, adapted to the composition of infinite free housing types and formal. Defined by Alessandro Mendini “the most advanced system ever built home at the international level” (home Landscape, 1979) this project, a radical revision of the instruments for service in the kitchen table and geared for maximum convenience and flexibility of use that all ‘era of his presentation was much buzz in the small world of the Arts de la table, is now resumed and completed by adding features from the cook and serve the store.
Table set 70s
A distance of three decades, and after so much work Alessi has developed on the research front and expressive of the strong visual identity of objects, it seems interesting to repeat the scene of this beautiful utopia design standards and deactivation of archetypal forms of household, research a different balance between Bello and Profit.
This series composed of flat plates, dessert plates and a bowl, all in white porcelain, complete the “Programma 8″ line, fitting precisely into the guiding aesthetic of simple expressive rigour and modularity that characterises the project as a whole.
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- salad set
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- cheese set
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- containers in stoneware
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- sets 4×4
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- sets 4×6
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The primary and fundamental unit remains the stainless steel tray around which grow stoneware containers, dosing for oil, vinegar, salt, pepper in 18/10 stainless steel mirror polished, bakelite and glass, cutlery from the service, bamboo-wooden chopping board with feet in non-slip rubber.
Office style
Office Alessi designed by Hani Rashid, Massimo Giacon, Donata Paruccini, Gerome Oliviet, King Kong, Mika H.J.Kim and LPWK
Alessi restyles your office with fantasy or minimalism giving you unique design objects for your desktop: pencils, bookmarkers, paper knives, desk organizers, photo frames, document trays, bookstands, envelope holders, pencil holders, paper baskets, pencil sharpeners, magnetic paper clip holders and lots more.
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- pencil holder
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- Roller pen in ABS and tungsten
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- document tray
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- document tray
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- photo frame
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- drawing pins
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- book marker
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- banknote pins
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- Paper Basket
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- magnetic paper clip holder
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- pencil holder
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- pencil sharpener
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- radio
All objects by Alessi and A di Alessi are made of stainless steel mirror polished and thermoplastic resin.
Wanna play Shangai?
Blow up – 2004 – by Fratelli Campana for Alessi
The novelty, freshness and poetry of this aesthetic-constructive approach have made “Blow up” a phenomenon that, despite the quick flood of imitations, continues to be the top seller on the international markets.
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 recent young international design. They have brought a healthy breath of fresh Brazilian and sub-equatorial air and poetry to European design.
Their work is hallmarked by “… use of materials in the raw state and by experimentation with poor and recycled matter. Their hybrid, often primitive forms seek to express the contradictions of their urban chaos, drawing on the vitality of indigenous expressions for endowing the products with an authentic nature, bound to the temperament of local folk” (C. Morozzi).
“Blow up”, the family of objects that we are presenting today marks the start of a collaboration that I hope will be long and fruitful. It resounds with echoes of the game called “Shanghai” and was created with the idea of assembling hypothetical offcuts of steel wire, welding them together to form various types of containers.
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 landscape, sometimes almost too rooted in their form/function ratio. Their method of construction is reminiscent of the forms of recycling typical of urban conglomerates in the third world, at least as we Europeans might imagine them, but this is done poetically, skilfully respecting the basic requirements of the relevant objects. I believe this approach is a good example of Lightness and Consistency, two of the literary recommendations of Italo Calvino.
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- small table
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- small table
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- wall mirror
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- magazine holder
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- wall clock
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- umbrella holder
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- tealight holder
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- placemat
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- flower vase
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- citrus basket
18/10 stainless steel mirror polished and glass
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