F.F.F.
Family Follows Fiction
designed by Stefano Giovannoni, Guido Venturini, Stefano Pirovano, Massimo Giacon, Philippe Starck, Mattia di Rosa, Alejandro Ruiz, Michael Graves, Biagio Cisotti, Alessandro Mendini, Lorena Bozzoli and CSA/LPWK.
A di Alessi products are the result of longstanding collaborations with the best international designers.
Working from a desire to introduce the public at large to the quality and exclusivity of the finest contemporary design, they have created a line of “democratic” and accessible products for every home.
This innovative grater is part of the Family Follows Fiction (F.F.F.) range, hilariously funny and fantasy-inspired products ideal for enlivening any family home.
The metaproject F.F.F. begun in 1991, grew out of a desire to explore the emotional structure of objects, focused in the most delicate, intimate, sensory human needs.
The objects became ludic tools, telling little tales, giving captivating twists to everyday uses, suggesting a mediation with playfulness and becoming a bridge to the fantastical.
At the outset the idea was to reproduce the process of creation and animation of the object common to the world of childhood and to primitive cultures.
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- sommelier corkscrew
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- parmesan cheese cellar with grater
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- grater with cheese cellar
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- egg cup with salt castor and spoon
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- egg-catcher
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- basket for cooking eggs
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- toothpick holder
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- nutcracker
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- kitchen timer
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- bottle opener
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- kitchen roll holder
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- tea-strainer
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- press filter coffee maker or infuser
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- container with small spatula
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- kitchen box for spaghetti
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- kitchen box with hermetic lid
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- bread bin
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- stand for containers shakers for spices
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- sugar castor
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- salt and pepper set
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- pepper mill or salt grinder
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- table set
Since 2004, the year of “Anna G.” and “Alessandro M.”, we have all been waiting for a new element of surprise on the corkscrew front. “Parrot”, the practical, pocket-sized sommelier corkscrew, has been designed to meet these expectations.
sommelier corkscrew
The War of the Citrus
Juicy Salif, citrus-squeezer by Philippe Starck for Alessi 1990
One of the first projects by Starck for Alessi, devised in the second half of the 1980s.
citrus-squeezer
An excellent example of Alessis role as artistic mediator in the most turbulent areas of creative potential (this was his response to our precise breifing for a stainless steel tray). It remains unparalleled in its ability to generate discussions about its meaning and design, partly because of its unconventional use of what semiologists refer to as the decorative veil which, even though generally in a less overt manner, is inexorably destined to cover all objects created by man. To fully understand the true meaning of its existence, it is possibly necessary to refer to the theories of Leroy-Gourham, who considers the notion of functional approximation to be fundamental. This notion suggests that there is always a certain degree of freedom in interpreting relationships between Form and Function: it is precisely this continual play between Form and Function that leads to the decorative veil mentioned above, that Floch considers to be the manifestation of the legendary and aesthetic dimension of the object, as originally defined by Greimas. As well as being the most controversial citrus fruit squeezer of the 20th century, it has also become one of the icons of design of the 1990s, and it continues to be one of the most provocatively intelligent articles in the Alessi catalogue.
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- citrus-squeezer
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- citrus-squeezer
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- citrus-squeezer
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- citrus-squeezer
Citrus-squeezer in aluminium casting, mirror polished
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