ICONS: Alessi stainless steel baskets
Transforming functional kitchenware into striking table centrepieces. Alessi baskets and large bowls are creatively designed, turning the humble fruit bowl into a piece of art. Discover playful twists on the everyday.
Crafted by renowned designers from around the world, Alessi baskets are known for their meticulous attention to detail. Take a look at a few of the most famous ones.
CACTUS
Distinctive for its fretwork, which represents a series of irregularity, overlapping
leaves. This fruit holder is part of a successful series of tableware items. Designed by Marta Sansoni (Read the interview to Marta HERE)
MEDITERRANEO
Once upon a time, coral could be found all over the Mediterranean and it was
exported across the world in exchange for spices and perfumes. Designer Emma
Silvestris has skilfully explored the imagery of the sea world to create this basket,
which embodies the essential forms and levity of the organism that populates the
oceans. Designed in 2004, this basket paved the way for the Mediterranean series.
GIROTONDO
The cut-out paper dolls motif created by design duo Stefano Giovannoni and Guido Venturini, who go by the name King-Kong, adorns a range of everyday objects, like the Girotondo stainless steel basket.
 THE "826" AND OTHER MODELS
The 826 basket belongs to a category of objects that have been present in the domestic household for centuries, the metal wire basket. It was the first object to result from the technological research into folded metal wire carried out by the Alessi technical office in the second half of the 1940s.
TRINITY
The Trinity basket is designed on the basis of a simple geometric shape, which
develops into a vortex to form an elegant concentric structure. Adam Cornish's
intention is to reproduce the appearance of a natural element through the modern
processes of industrial production. The dynamic shape of the basket is created
through a process of laser perforations in sheets steel, which is then shaped
mechanically.
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