Alessi 9093/1 Michael Graves Kettle with Bird Whistle - 1 Liter

The kettle with the little bird designed by Michael Graves is presented in a new, smaller size and in two new colours, taken directly from its creator's historical palette. Designed in the early 1980s, it has spanned four decades, always presented in new versions: an object that has never ceased to amaze, intercepting consumer tastes the way only an icon can.

MEASUREMENTS:

• Height: 20.5 cm / 8 inch
• Diameter: 20 cm / 7.8 inch
• Volume: 1 liter / 33.8 oz

MATERIALS:

• Kettle in 18/10 Stainless steel mirror polished with handle and small bird-shaped whistle in polyamide
• Magnetic steel bottom

HELPFUL NOTES:

• Suitable for use on induction cooktops

Michael Graves

USA, 1934 - 2015

Michael Graves was born in Indiana in 1934. An American architect and designer, he was one of the principal figures in the postmodernist movement.

Graves trained to be an architect at Harvard, earning a master’s degree in 1959. Graves began his architectural career in the 1960s as a creator of private houses in the abstract and austere style of modernism. In the late 1970s, however, Graves began to reject the bare and unadorned Modernist idiom as too cool and abstract and he began seeking a richer architectural vocabulary that would be more accessible to the public.

He soon drew attention with his designs for several large public buildings in the early 1980s. The Portland Public Service Building in Portland, Oregon and the Humana Building in Louisville, Kentucky, were notable for their hulking masses and for Graves’s highly personal, Cubist interpretations of such classical elements as colonnades and loggias.

By the mid-1980s Graves had emerged as arguably the most original and popular figure working in the postmodernist idiom. He executed architectural and design commissions for clients around the world. In the early 1980s he created a playful and iconic teakettle for the Alessi design firm and he later created a line of household items, including kitchenware and home accessories.

In 2001 Graves was awarded the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal (AIA) for lifetime achievement.

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