Alessi
Metalware factory in Omegna on Lake Orta that became one of the most important makers of Postmodernism, with Richard Sapper, Michael Graves, Aldo Rossi and Philippe Starck.
Giovanni Alessi set up a workshop for metal objects in Omegna, and in the first decades it made jugs, trays and tableware in brass and nickel silver. His son Carlo Alessi designed several of the objects of the 1930s himself.
From the 1970s Alberto Alessi brought in outside architects and designers, and Alessi became an experimental laboratory for postmodernism. The Tea and Coffee Piazza project (1983) and the kettles by Richard Sapper and Michael Graves turned kitchen objects into collectors' items.
The name Alessi stamped under the base, often with the designer’s name.