Alessi Little Paradise - Seascape

This first series "Figure" consists of small figures that serve as decorative objects. It is the first concrete result of a new direction aimed at competing with the fascinating world of porcelain figures. In particular, it references the elegant manufacturing tradition of European factories since the 18th century, but in the characteristic style of Alessi.

"It was in 1991 when we at Alessi first talked about figures, following a workshop with the Trash Designers from the East Village of New York the winter before. After researching the fetishes and animistic properties of objects, which were coming together during those years in the METAPROJEKT Family Follow Fiction, we believed that a creative development could possibly be expressed in a collection of porcelain figures. As a representation of a magical world, the unobtrusive and...