Food Design Aventures sensibles For its tenth exhibition, Le Lieu du Design invited Marc Bretillot to organize an exhibition, which will include the many challenges of culinary design (industrial, societal, cultural). The icon of culinary design, Marc Bretillot teach at the School of Art and Design in Reims - where he created in 1999 a research and culinary design workshop - and collaborates with the Ecole Supérieure de Cuisine Française Ferrandi in Paris (French school of higher catering). Fo...
Less is more or More is more? “Oggetti e Progetti”, the exhibition that was inaugurated in May 2010 at the Die Neue Sammlung museum in Munich, has travelled to the U.S. where it opened last November at the Philadelphia Museum of Art with a new title: “Ethical and Radical”. The title alludes to the two extremes between which we plan to direct our research in this new decade that has just begun. On one hand, as we here at Alessi understand it, “ethical” is the search for a new simplicity, modest...
This series of “Figure”, figurines, purposeless objects or whatever you want to call them, are presented here together for the first time. Their study has been going on since the 1990s. The goal is to compare the intriguing world of porcelain figures, particularly the refined production tradition of European manufacturers from the 18th century onwards, with our methods and with contemporary designers. “Representing a magical world, the discreet and symbolic presence of the small ornament is se...
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