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Creating a new cutlery, from the original and innovative design without disto...
Creating a new cutlery, from the original and innovative design without distorting its functionality, is one of the toughest challenges for a designer. Ettore Sottsass's cutleries for salad of Nuovo Milano series are an example of how the challenge can be won.
The Nuovo Milano cutlery set, designed by Ettore Sottsass, has become a classic. The author wanted this tableware to be “smooth as an ocean rock”, with a soft and rounded shape. It won the XVIth Compasso d'oro award.
Ettore Sottsass
Born in Innsbruck in 1917, he is known the world over as one of the initiators of the revolution in architecture and design which led away from the rigid functionalism of the years prior to and following the Second World War. A great and influential Maestro of Italian design, the...
Alberto Gozzi
Alberto Gozzi was born at Ghemme (Novara) in 1939. His career developed in France, Germany, UK and Switzerland, and he has developed extensive experience in all fields of the hotel business. Alberto Gozzi is passionately interested in the culture and art of hospitality and has been involved in numerous Alessi...
