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Color
Black
Brand
Alessi
Material
Plastic
Item Weight
0.01 Ounces
About this item
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Additional Details
Made in Italy
Shop products that have been wholly produced or have undergone their last substantial transformation in Italy. Discover more about “Made in Italy”, a label synonymous throughout the world with refined materials, attention to detail, and creativity.
This celebrated kettle with the bird that sings when the water has boiled was a great success when it was introduced in 1985, and for Alessi it represented a meeting of great design and mass production methods, a combination that Michael Graves worked hard to achieve, applying his personal visual code which fused influences from Art Deco to Pop Art and even the language of cartoons.
Diameter (cm): 22.00
Height (cm): 22.50
Content (cl/oz): 200.00
The Designer
Michael Graves
Born in Indianapolis, he teaches architecture in Princeton since 1962. His architectural works include the Portland Building and the Humana Building, the extension of the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Newark Museum. He created the best-selling 9093 kettle for Alessi. Michael Graves died in 2015.
The company
Founded in 1921 as a 'Workshop for the processing of brass and nickel silver sheet metal, with foundry', Alessi has always stood out for the high quality of its products.
In almost a century of history, the company has gradually evolved to become one of the leading “Factories of Italian design', capable of applying its expertise and excellence in design management to many different product types.
Open to change and international development, Alessi at the same time has a strong bond with the traditions and cultural background of its area and continues to be synonymous with handcrafted objects produced with the help of machines.
Alessigraphy: the geography of Alessi production
Since the Company's foundation in 1921 the majority of Alessi products have been manufactured through the cold working of metals, a tradition that is kept alive today by the skilled workers at the Crusinallo plant in Omegna.
Over time, Alessi also began to work with many other materials, such as porcelain, glass, wood, and plastic... A specific production method was developed for each one. Even when production takes place outside the Crusinallo plant, Alessi’s guidelines guarantee the company’s original production quality standards, continuing to reconcile industrial technological complexity with an artisanal eye for detail.
The objects produced from the different materials are manufactured in various production plants across the world. They remain original Alessi objects in that they are conceived with the same design excellence and produced with the same attention to quality that sets the company’s products apart.
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This is a well designed and nicely proportioned mechanical kitchen timer; check the online dimensions as it's possibly a little larger than you might expect. The silver parts you can see on the picture are all metal. Usefully, there are three non-slip rubberised feet to the base to prevent scratches to work surfaces. The instruction leaflet enclosed warns not to expect the timer to be as accurate as a clock. I've set the timer against a digital timepiece and actually I didn't find much difference whether timing for short or longer periods - the maximum period is one hour. It's easy to operate - simply turn Anna's head clockwise to the maximum 60 minutes, then turn it anticlockwise until the raised mark on the lower metal hemisphere is pointing to the number of minutes you want to set it for. The alarm bell was loud, though it didn't sound for a very long time. If ever a kitchen timer could be described as striking, this is it.
Precedentemente avevo preso due timer di altre marche, uno ha funzionato solo un paio di mesi, l'altro neanche un giorno! Questo di Alessi funziona benissimo ed ha un meccanismo solido. Il design è quello famoso di A. Mendini. NB: il colore non è quel viola nella foto, ne rosso come descritto, ma è bordeaux. Certo il prezzo non è di poco, ma sono soldi ben spesi.
Je ne suis pas contente car il est tout rayé. La boite du minuteur avait déjà était ouvert et recollé, alors que le carton extérieur du transporteur était bien fermé et intacte. A ce prix là c'est une honte. Je ne recommande pas.