Alessi designs
- •
Alessi (Italian company)
Italian kitchen utensil manufacturer
Alessi is a housewares and kitchen utensil company in Italy, manufacturing and marketing everyday items authored by a wide range of designers, architects and industrial designers — including Achille Castiglioni, Richard Sapper, Marco Zanuso, Alessandro Mendini, Ettore Sottsass, Wiel Arets, Zaha Hadid, Toyo Ito, Hani Rashid, Tom Kovac, Greg Lynn, MVRDV, Jean Nouvel, UN Studio, Michael Graves, and Philippe Starck. The Alessi company in the UK is worth around £2.4 million.
History
Alessi was founded in 1921 by Giovanni Alessi who was born in Italy and raised in Switzerland. A few years after World War I, Alessi started with producing a wide range of tableware items in nickel, chromium and silver-plated brass. The company began when Carlo Alessi (born 1916), the son of Giovanni, was named chief designer. Between 1935 and 1945 he developed most of the products Alessi released.
1950s and 1960s
In 1969 the company was under the leadership of Carlo Alessi.[1] It was his brothe
- •
Alberto Alessi
Born in Arona (Novara), Italy, in 1946, Alberto Alessi is president of Alessi S.p.A. and head of Marketing Strategy, Communications, and Design Management.
The eldest son of Carlo Alessi, Alberto belongs to the third generation of the Alessi family, and officially joined the company in 1970, the day after he received his law degree. He initially was in charge of commerce, the development of new products, and communications.
Since 1970, he has collaborated with architects and designers around the world to enhance the company’s reputation of working with key names in the field of international design.
Alberto Alessi has written several books, including La Cintura di Orione (1986), Not in Production, Next to Production (1988), and The Dream Factory: Alessi since 1921 (1998). During his career he has contributed articles to many international magazines and publications and he has been a visiting professor at several design colleges.
A member of the Academic Board of the University of Industrial Arts in Helsinki (UIAH), Alessi also sits on the Honorary C
- •
Joseph Alessi
Principal Trombone
The Gurnee F. and Marjorie L. Hart Chair
Biography
Joseph Alessi was appointed Principal Trombone of the New York Philharmonic, The Gurnee F. and Marjorie L. Hart Chair, in the spring of 1985. He began musical studies in his native California with his father, Joseph Alessi, Sr., as a high school student in San Rafael, California, and was a soloist with the San Francisco Symphony before continuing his musical training at the Curtis Institute of Music. Before joining the Philharmonic, Alessi was second trombone of The Philadelphia Orchestra for four seasons, and principal trombone of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra for one season. He has performed as guest principal trombonist with the London Symphony Orchestra in Carnegie Hall, led by Pierre Boulez.
Alessi is an active soloist, recitalist, and chamber musician. In April 1990 he made his solo debut with the New York Philharmonic, performing Creston’s Fantasy for Trombone, and in 1992 premiered Christopher Rouse’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Trombone Concerto with the Philharmonic, which comm
Copyright ©soybeck.pages.dev 2025