FEW PEOPLE HAVE BROUGHT more beauty, style and whimsy to housewares than 70-year-old Alberto Alessi. Since he joined his family’s Italian company in 1970, he has commissioned almost 300 ...

First Alessi created the designer teakettle. Then the Italian housewares company produced legions of cute and beautifully made goods for trophy kitchens. Now Alessi is moving into the spa bath.

Alberto Alessi always dreamed of becoming an architect. Instead, he joined the family firm—upscale Italian homewares company Alessi—and did the next best thing: hired them. In his 36 years as ...

The ‘9091’ kettle, designed in 1983 for Italian housewares company Alessi, is a wonder to behold: the stainless steel, mirror-polished body; the scalloped polyamide handle; and — the piece ...

Italian housewares company Alessi recently unveiled a new take on what the Guiness Book of World Records calls the world’s most popular coffee maker — the moka pot, invented in the 1930s and sold ...

Several years ago, the Italian housewares company Alessi asked 22 international architects to work on a smaller scale than they were accustomed to: The company commissioned a coffee and tea service ...

Alberto Alessi is current CEO of the prestigious Italian design company Alessi SPA ... and it focused on the production of houseware. It was Alberto’s dad, Carlo, who started the revolution ...

If there is one Italian ... The company was founded by the Alessi family from Luzzogno, North Italy, and started out as a craft workshop. In 1921, Giovanni Alessi produced handmade design ...

and prototypes for more than 50 proposed designs from 1921 to 2012 that never went into production at the storied Italian housewares and kitchen utensils company. Giovanni Alessi Anghini_tools for ...

FEW PEOPLE HAVE BROUGHT more beauty, style and whimsy to housewares than 70-year-old Alberto Alessi. Since he joined his family’s Italian company in 1970, he has commissioned almost 300 ...