Alessi La Stanza dello Scirocco

“A true design work must move people, convey emotions, bring back memories, surprise, and go against common thinking.” – ALBERTO ALESSI

Founded in 1921, Italian company Alessi has been at the forefront of product design, employing architects, designers and craftspeople from around the world that continue to create truly iconic designs of the modern age. Alessi, always been known for the high quality of its’ products, has evolved to become one of the leading “Factories of Italian design” capable of applying its expertise and excellence to many different product types.  Alessi has a strong bond with the traditions and cultural background of its area yet continues push against the desires of the general public. Alessi has been described as a “Dream Factory” which uses its products to make people’s dreams come true, by providing them with the art and poetry that they seek.

“La Stanza dello Scirocco” is a range of items born out of the abstract and motionless atmosphere of a magic place: the room in large Sicilian country homes where one is forced to seek shelter from the sultriness while waiting for the sirocco to die down. It is a room without windows in which you can do nothing but ponder the wind that is undoing all sublunary things outside. The upshot is a collection of geometrically irregular items made up of small splinters of various sizes, interlaced in an unstable balance.