T Magazine: On View | The Alessi Effect
For the last three decades, the Italian home products manufacturer Alessi has been at the forefront of design, producing instant icons like Michael Graves’s bird-whistle teakettle (above), Philippe Starck’s infamous Juicy Salif juicer and Richard Sapper’s elegant espresso pot — a fixture on many a yuppie’s high-end cooktop. The Philadelphia Museum of Art is celebrating the 90-year-old company with an exhibition, ‘‘Alessi: Ethical and Radical,’’ which opens Nov. 21. Central to Alessi’s success is its creative mastermind, Alberto Alessi, a grandson of the founder, who has run the company since the 1970s. ‘‘He’s absolutely unique in the amount of time and money that he has spent on design,’’ stated Kathryn Hiesinger, the exhibition’s curator. Included in the show are planned reissues of designs from the 1920s, ’30s and ’40s, a time that Alberto Alessi describes as ‘‘predesign,’’ before the rise of glossy ‘‘designer’’ products — which is ironic coming from the man who helped invent the category. But, as Heisinger explained, ‘‘Alberto is now in his minimalist, simplicity mode; he’s against overdesign.’’ Well, he’s been right before.
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