Alessi Cactus Fruit Basket, Stainless Steel, Brand NEW RRP £130.00
Gleaming polished steel pierced fruit bowl with oval cactus shapes. Distinctive for its fretwork, which represents a series of irregularly overlapping leaves, CACTUS! by Marta Sansoni has become one of the most representative objects of Alessi's expertise in the processing of perforated steel. This basket is part of a successful series of tableware items. A great gift for any Alessi fan or Italian design aficionado.
The Designer
Marta Sansoni, an architect and designer living in Florence (Italy), graduated in architecture in 1990. Her thesis work project "A building for worship" was published by the School of Architecture at the University of Florence and was selected to represent the Department of Architectural Design at the 1991 "Salon International de l'Architecture" in Paris. From 1990 to 1996 she has officially and continuously been a lecturer in the course of Interior Architectural Design at the University of Florence. She participated in several national and international design exhibitions and competitions: among these, the 1990 "Memory Containers" with Alessi. In the field of architecture, she has realized projects for new buildings in Florence and many projects of interior architectural design. In the design area, she has realized for Alessi two articulated families of objects Cactus!, Ba-Rock and a series of individual objects.
Condition: Brand NEW in Original Packaging, perfect for a gift
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