Tutti Frutti

Alessi

Designer: Giulio Iacchetti

Tutti Frutti fruit basket

The original fruit holder Tutti Frutti has been designed by Giulio Iacchetti to offer, present and preserve fruit: a basket with a kind of pronged rod inserted in the middle that enables you to hang fruit, like bananas, cherries, or grapes, to add a further degree of poetry to the composition. Tutti Frutti fruit holder comes in two versions: stainless steel with mirrored finish or Super White.

The Designer

Giulio Iacchetti

Industrial designer since 1992, designs for many brands including Abet Laminati, Alessi, Danese, Elica, Foscarini, Globo Ceramiche, Jannelli&Volpi, Hastens, Magis, Meritalia, Moleskine, Pandora design. The distinctive characteristics of his work is the research and definition of new object typologies. In 2009 he was awarded the prize for innovation “Premio dei Premi” by the President of the Italian Republic for the Coop Eureka project, which brought the design in the large-scale retail trade. In November 2012 he launches Internoitaliano, the “factory network” made up of many craftsmen labs with whom he signs and produces furniture and accessories inspired by the italian way of living. In 2014, he won his second Compasso d'Oro for the design of the manhole covers Sfera, designed with Matteo Ragni for Montini.

The company

Founded in 1921 as a “Workshop for the processing of brass and nickel silver sheet metal, with foundry”, Alessi has always stood out for the high quality of its products.

In almost a century of history, the company has gradually evolved to become one of the leading “Factories of Italian design”, capable of applying its expertise and excellence in design management to many different product types.

Open to change and international development, Alessi at the same time has a strong bond with the traditions and cultural background of its area and continues to be synonymous with handcrafted objects produced with the help of machines.

Alessigraphy: the geography of Alessi production

Since the Company's Foundation in 1921 the Majority of Alessi Products have Been Manufactured through the Cold Working of Metals, a Tradition that is Kept Alive Today by the Skilled Workers at the Crusinallo Plant in Omegna.

Over time, Alessi also began to work with many other materials, such as porcelain, glass, wood, and plastic. A specific production method was developed for each one. Even when production takes place outside the Crusinallo plant, Alessi’s guidelines ensure the company’s original production quality standards, continuing to reconcile industrial technological complexity with an artisanal eye for detail.

The objects produced from the different materials are manufactured in various production plants across the world. They remain original Alessi objects in that they are conceived with the same design excellence and produced with the same attention to quality that sets the company’s products apart.