The Alessi factory was founded on the shores of lake San Giulio, Northern Italy in 1921. The area had a long tradition of producing quality housewares, but over the following years Alessi set about redefining the standard. Today, the name Alessi has become synonymous with the highest quality of design and manufacture. Alessi products embody all that is great about imagination, invention, style and fun, but still maintain the core qualities of superb engineering and finish. Buying Alessi guarantees that you will have a product that will look great and function just as well. As is the Alessi tradition, products in this category are organised by their designer.
Richard Sapper, with studies in philosophy, anatomy, graphics, engineering and economics under his belt, loves designing technically complex objects. He has won the Milan's design awards Compassi d'Oro ten times, creating many design classics with the beautifully engineered clean lines he is so well known for.
Born in Tel Aviv in 1951, Professor Ron Arad now lives in London, where amongst other things, he is the Head of the Design Products department at the Royal College of Art. His works have had much acclaim, his style distinctively fluid and organic.
Michael Graves' highly personal and easy to recognise formal style blends influences from the European tradition, Art Deco, American "pop", and flashes of pre-Columbian culture.
Over the past two decades Graves has proved himself as one of the great Alessi designers providing an impeccable combination of style and functionality in all his designs.
Alessandro Mendini has had a special and lasting impact on the history of Alessi. Not only is he responsible for several of Alessi's most recognisable design icons, but, in his role as an architect he has designed two extensions to the factory, the Alessi museum and even Alberto Alessi's house.
Mendini's most famous design is perhaps Anna G. Named after his wife, a giant rendition of the corkscrew now stands at the entrance to the Alessi factory.
These miniatures are very aesthetically pleasing, the quality of design and manufacturing quality is not lost when scaled down. The miniature series comprises of a number of classics from the history of Alessi's production, from the “Bombé” teapot by Carlo Alessi (1945) to the “Mami” saucepan by Stefano Giovannoni (1999). The collection was created with special consideration for collectors of Alessi's products, to give them the chance to complete their private collections of authentic objects and with considerable savings in terms of both space and expenditure
Designer, interior designer and interior decorator, Alejandro Ruiz worked as a designer for Alessandro Mendini at Studio Alchimia and collaborated with Alchimia studio and with Gregotti Associati. He was teacher at the European Design Institute, at Domus Academy and at the Faculty of Architecture Politecnico di Milano in Mantova and he currently teaches at Istituto Macchina in Brescia, Italy.
As well as Alessi, Alejandro Ruiz has produced designs for for Red-Zanussi, Fiat-Alfa Romeo, Electrolux Group, Ikea, Kellogs,Virgin Records, Comune di Bologna, Comune di Milano and others.
The cheese grater Parmenide, designed by Alejandro Ruiz for Alessi is part of the Permanent Design Collection at the MOMA in New York.
Mattia Di Rosa was born at Carrara in 1969. His obsessive experimental approach focuses on his fascination with errors and chance, his preferred points of reference in his creative process.
Mattia Di Rosa has been working with Alessi since 1992 and has been responsible for many memorable designs in that time.
Born in Breda in 1966 Paul Van Iersel Harry studied design at the Design Academy in Eindhoven and graduated in 1992. He attended the Domus Academy in Milan where he met Camila Vega with whom he set up Harry & Camila studio in 1998.
Born in Puglia in 1955. Biagio Cisotti works and lives in Florence where he graduated in Architecture in 1980. Since 1989 he has taught Technology of Production at the I.S.I.A. (Superior Institute for the Artistical Industries) in Florence.
Together with a group of architects from Florence he founded MADE in 1990 which is a cultural association and a display area promoting initiatives of architecture and design. He is in charge of the artistic department of various companies and his objects are shown in many national and international exhibitions.
Born in Padua, Italy, in 1961, comic-strip artist and illustrator, a leading light in the renewal of Italian comic, he divides his time as a graphic artist, designer, musician and artist.
Mirriam Mirri was born in Bologna in 1964, and now lives and works in Milan. She graduated at the Superior School for Anotomic Design and studied communication and design at the Università del Progetto in Reggio Emilia. She worked in London with Nigel Coates and has been assistant to Stefano Giovannoni for many years
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