Plus, it’s reasonably priced compared with other luxury brands. It’s been years since I’ve heard it, but the sound of my grandmother’s jarringly screechy tea kettle still echoes in my brain. Despite ...

It's just a kettle, or is it? Colin Bisset gives the history of a design classic, the Alessi 9093 Kettle. With its iconic bird whistle, and post-modern design by Princeton architecture lecturer ...

The ‘9091’ kettle, designed in 1983 for Italian housewares company Alessi, is a wonder to behold: the stainless steel, mirror-polished body; the scalloped polyamide handle; and — the piece de ...

The age of architect-designed objects is upon us. Five years ago, the Alessi company of Italy invited some of the world`s most famous architects–such as Michael Graves and Robert Venturi–to design tea ...