Alessi
Overview
Alessi is a kitchen utensil company from Italy
Italy
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. They design everyday items from plastic
Plastic
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and stainless steel
Stainless steel
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.
From the 1980s
1980s
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onward, Alessi has been particularly associated with the notion of "designer
Designer
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" objects - otherwise ordinary tools and objects executed as high design, particularly in a post-modern mode, from designers such as Philippe Starck
Philippe Starck
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. Most of the memorable "designer kettles," "designer toothbrushes," "designer graters" and so on were Alessi products.
Alessi was founded in 1921 to produce crafted products in metal for eating and drinking, by Giovanni Alessi.
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