Alessi | The Design Factory A journey inside and outside Alessi to discover a Factory of Italian Design |
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Alessigraphy | The geography of Alessi production SINCE THE COMPANY S foundation in 1921 the majority of Alessi products have been manufactured through the cold working of metals a tradition that is kept alive today by the skilled workers at the Crusinallo plant in Omegna Over time Alessi also began to work with many other materials such as porcelain glass wood and plastic A specific production method was developed for each one Even when production takes place outside the Crusinallo plant Alessi s guidelines guarantee the company s original production quality standards continuing to reconcile industrial technological complexity with an artisanal eye for detail The objects produced from the different materials are manufactured in various production plants across the world They remain original Alessi objects in that they are conceived with the same design excellence and produced with the same attention to quality that sets the company s products apart The |
Designer | Boucquillon Maaoui Born in Belgium in 1962 In 1988 he won the competition of the CHAMBER OF EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT in Brussels which signed the beginning of his Architectural and Design career In 2000 he opened a new workshop dedicated to Industrial Design and experimental Architecture in Lucca Tuscany in his CASA BOUCQUILLON extremely experimental place of exploration meditation live and work Michel actually works for the world most famous International Design |
Companies | Alessi Artemide Antoniolupi Serralunga Martinelliluce His work is present in several Museums and got many of the main international Awards |
Recently | Menzione d Onore Compasso d Oro 2011 Good Design Award 2008 Design Plus 2006 Donia Maaoui Michel s wife and an architect herself works alongside her husband on some of the Alessi and Martinelliluce projects although her principal occupation is cast bronze sculpture and painting |
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