Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MILAN — Alessi may be marking its 100th anniversary, but president Alberto Alessi is clearly one to look ahead rather than back.

Iconic Italian homeware brand Alessi has sold a 40 per cent stake to private equity fund Oakley Capital. The British fund bought into the brand for an unknown figure. The Alessi family retains the ...

As a fledgling designer, there are few experiences as esteemed as winning a design competition like the Alessi Design Award. For Anita Dineen, winner of the 2014 prize, it was her “unconventional” ...

Alberto Alessi works from the kind of office in which most people would struggle to work at all. On a bright summer day, the design impresario has drawn the shutters in his cluttered HQ just outside ...

Francky Knapp is a staff writer at Eater, and an award-winning writer with bylines in GQ, VICE, The Daily Beast, and other publications. A curious home cook with a deep love of Polish cabbage rolls, ...

For all his giant reputation in the design industry, Alberto Alessi is actually a shy man, more comfortable sitting on the terrace with a cigar and a few close friends than working a room. He’s not ...

The whimsical Alessi bird whistle tea kettle, designed by architect Michael Graves in 1985, is the company's best-selling item of all time. Courtesy of Alessi, design by Michael Graves Tiny, ...

Giant of modern design Alberto Alessi was in Milwaukee yesterday to deliver a lecture at the Milwaukee Art Museum as part of the four-day "Art of the Table" event. We sat down with him for a few ...

Since its founding in 1921, housewares giant Alessi has produced thousands and thousands of products, including items by design visionaries. But not every creation makes it to the shelves: Spindly red ...

You might imagine that Alberto Alessi is as finished a product as those his company sells. Instead, it’s a pleasure to discover he is a gentle, disarmingly honest figure in whose blue eyes you can see ...

Editor’s Note: This story is part of the Style Italia series exploring the past, present and future of Italian design. Omegna, Italy CNN — Whether its a stainless steel Moka coffeepot that prepares ...