Design
1983 (made)
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The Tea & Coffee Piazza collection was the result of a celebrated collaboration between Italian design firm, Alessi, and eleven architects, each of whom was invited to design tea and coffee sets for the company. The project was instigated in the late 1970s, and the resulting commissions appeared a few years later in the early 1980s and were sold as high-end limited edition sets. Drawing upon some of the leading architects, designers and theorists of the time, the Tea & Coffee Piazza collection presented an architectural form of expression through the language of domestic product design. The principal of collaborating with architects on domestic design products has continued at Alessi, namely through the Tea & Coffee Towers project which was presented at the Milan Furniture Fair in 2003 and showcased collaborations with leading designers such as David Chipperfield, Toyo Ito and Jean Nouvel.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Serigraph on paper |
| Brief description | Design, for Tea & Coffee Piazza Collection, designed by Stanley Tigerman, made by Alessi, Italy, 1983. |
| Physical description | Serigraph on paper, in blue, green, yellow, flesh pink and black, with fifteen designs for parts of a tea and coffee set, each piece within a compartment of a white architectural frame with twenty-four compartments. The centre of the frame has a circle in which the frame is flesh pink and the sky behind is yellow. There are six naked winged figures at the top, and five naked figures at the base, with a background landscape with clouds, grass and mountains around a round lake. |
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| Credit line | Given by Museo Alessi |
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| Summary | The Tea & Coffee Piazza collection was the result of a celebrated collaboration between Italian design firm, Alessi, and eleven architects, each of whom was invited to design tea and coffee sets for the company. The project was instigated in the late 1970s, and the resulting commissions appeared a few years later in the early 1980s and were sold as high-end limited edition sets. Drawing upon some of the leading architects, designers and theorists of the time, the Tea & Coffee Piazza collection presented an architectural form of expression through the language of domestic product design. The principal of collaborating with architects on domestic design products has continued at Alessi, namely through the Tea & Coffee Towers project which was presented at the Milan Furniture Fair in 2003 and showcased collaborations with leading designers such as David Chipperfield, Toyo Ito and Jean Nouvel. |
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| Accession number | E.170-2009 |
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| Record created | February 1, 2011 |
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