Omegna, Italy

Alessi

Kitchenware & Design Objects

Founded on the shores of Lake Orta in 1921, Alessi has spent a century transforming the domestic object into cultural artefact. Collaborating with the world's most celebrated designers — from Aldo Rossi to Philippe Starck, from Michael Graves to Hella Jongerius — the company has made its Crusinallo factory a laboratory of applied art. Each piece balances rigorous function with irreverent wit, insisting that the objects of everyday life deserve the same extraordinary care as those of any gallery.