Alessi - Mediterraneo d25 fruit basket steel

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 skillfully explored the imagery of the sea world to create this basket, which embodies the essential forms and levity of the organisms that populate the ocean. Designed in 2004, this basket paved the way for the Mediterraneo series.

Emma Silvetris

Emma Silvetris; born in Salerno in 1962, lives and works in Bari. After graduating in literature, specializing in foreign literature and Art History, she devoted herself to teaching and research. Since 1990 he has been involved in design, and specifically participates in the activities of the Studio Speciale of Bari. Eclectic and versatile designer, she manages to combine in her projects soft and feminine shapes, the rigor and elegance of geometry, the use of symbols of ancient tradition. In the field of design, the collaboration with Alessi is important. In this case, the Mediterranean fruit bowl celebrates coral, transferring into metal the magical and symbolic aura of the underwater world. Made of stainless steel, the fruit bowl Mediteraneo brings on the table light and essential shapes that populate the sea.

LPWK Design Studio

With the establishment of the CS Alessi, Laura Polinoro had the opportunity to gain experience with a new design method for the new collections. A methodology based on 'metaproject' and laboratories. Later, in 2000, she founded LPWK Design Studio, which allows her to continue experimenting and improving the metaproject method through international workshops. Since 2016, there is a new creation: TWIRL. This project allows to expand the possibilities of the metaproject exploiting the unlimited virtual space and developing new concepts taking into account the new lifestyle, needs and languages. It also offers those who want to communicate their ideas the opportunity to provide useful input in the creative process, thanks to Social Networks.

Twirl is a place on the web where projects, coincidences, meetings, memories are all on display in a single environment of continuous creativity, comparison and dialogue. It is a meeting between past and present in one of the most innovative working relationships of the Italian design system, the one that LPWK has been having with Alessi since 1990.

Alessi

Alessi founded in 1921 as a Workshop for the processing of brass and nickel-silver plates, with foundry, it is recognized for the high quality of its products. In nearly a century of history it has gradually evolved to become a leading exponent of the "Factories of Italian design".
The Company is open to change and international development and also deeply rooted in the tradition and cultural background of its territory. Alessi continues to be synonymous with craft objects made with the help of machines. Today Alessi’s goal is to translate the search for the most advanced cultural, aesthetic, executive and functional quality into the industrial production series. The design product stems from the constant search for mediation between art and industry, between the "Immensity of the Creative Possible" and the needs of the market. The company’s commitment is to constantly work on a boundary line, balancing the most advanced expressions of creativity with the needs of the audience. Alessi has been called a "dream factory". Indeed, through its products it aspires to make its contribution to responding to a desire for people's  happiness, to the need for Art and Poetry common to all people.