Alessi - Crevasse flower vase

This tall and slim, subtly twisted stainless steel vase offers a striking base to your flower arrangement. Designed by Iraqi-born architect Zaha Hadid.

Zaha Hadid

Zaha Hadid (Bagdad 1950) studied at the Architectural Association in London, where she qualified in 1977. She was teacher at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, and is Visiting Professor at Yale University. She began her professional career in 1979. Her major completed projects include the lf one pavilion at Weil am Rhein; the Mind Zone at Millennium Dome in London; a tram station and car park in Strasbourg and a ski jump in Innsbruck. Zaha Hadid is also well known as a painter and designer: her work has been shown in various exhibitions in the United States, Japan, Britain and Germany. Zaha Hadid died in 2016.

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.