Veneer Bowl
by Patricia Urquiola from AlessiVariations
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The Veneer Bowl from Alessi combines practicality with poetry as it translates wood's artful veins into an embossed composition of contours made in hard steel. Created by the renowned Patricia Urquiola, the piece highlights the designer's process of beginning with memory, rethinking the familiar in a new inventive way. The memory of wood's texture and dynamism informs the fundamental element of the Veneer bowl. It's a refined reinterpretation, using an embossing process to create a layout of wavy ridges. The steel construction gives the ridges a crisp, tactile edge and the bowl an enduring feel. Its deep bowl form serves elegantly for holding and displaying one's fruits.
Alessi is a family owned Italian design company, founded in 1921. Giovanni Alessi, a talented sheet metal worker, produced items by hand for the table and home out of copper, brass and nickel-silver. He was later joined by his son Carlo who was responsible for many of the designs produced in the 1930s and early 1940s. In the mid 1940s Alessi began to work with outside designers. The current Alessi catalo is the result of a collaboration with over 500 designers from all over the world. A true work of design must be able to move people, to convey feelings, to trigger memories, to surprise, to go against the grain. From this point of view, design intended to conjure up images in people's minds, which makes them a bit happier, still has tremendous potential. --Alberto Alessi
The Veneer Bowl from Alessi combines practicality with poetry as it translates wood's artful veins into an embossed composition of contours made in hard steel. Created by the renowned Patricia Urquiola, the piece highlights the designer's process of beginning with memory, rethinking the familiar in a new inventive way. The memory of wood's texture and dynamism informs the fundamental element of the Veneer bowl. It's a refined reinterpretation, using an embossing process to create a layout of wavy ridges. The steel construction gives the ridges a crisp, tactile edge and the bowl an enduring feel. Its deep bowl form serves elegantly for holding and displaying one's fruits.
Alessi is a family owned Italian design company, founded in 1921. Giovanni Alessi, a talented sheet metal worker, produced items by hand for the table and home out of copper, brass and nickel-silver. He was later joined by his son Carlo who was responsible for many of the designs produced in the 1930s and early 1940s. In the mid 1940s Alessi began to work with outside designers. The current Alessi catalo is the result of a collaboration with over 500 designers from all over the world. A true work of design must be able to move people, to convey feelings, to trigger memories, to surprise, to go against the grain. From this point of view, design intended to conjure up images in people's minds, which makes them a bit happier, still has tremendous potential. --Alberto Alessi
- Design/Year: Patricia Urquiola/2020
- Bronze color is made from epoxy covered steel
- Manufactured In: Italy
- Stainless Steel
- Small Item: H 2.5 in , Dia 8.25 in , Wgt 0.48Lbs
- Medium Item: H 3.5 in , Dia 11.5 in , Wgt 0.89Lbs
Model(s):
PU06/29,
PU06/21.
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