Alberto Alessi Scopes Out Luxury In Design
- 6 years ago
The designer says it all depends on how you define luxury.
Question: Is design a luxury?Alessi: Depends from what you think is a luxury. Design, for me, for all the Italian design factories phenomenon, is a new and very contemporary form of art and poetry. Then, is art and poetry a luxury? I leave to you the question. Question: How do you balance functionality with art?Alessi: It depends very much from the area where you are working in. For example, my personal job in my work, I am dealing with the objects that are hundreds of years old, if not millenary sold. If you think how old this bowl or a cup or a pot, thousand years old, that means that almost all the functional matters have been... have found their solution. And this space, which is left, is still a space related to the emotions, not so much to the function. You cannot invent so much in my field.
Question: Is design a luxury?Alessi: Depends from what you think is a luxury. Design, for me, for all the Italian design factories phenomenon, is a new and very contemporary form of art and poetry. Then, is art and poetry a luxury? I leave to you the question. Question: How do you balance functionality with art?Alessi: It depends very much from the area where you are working in. For example, my personal job in my work, I am dealing with the objects that are hundreds of years old, if not millenary sold. If you think how old this bowl or a cup or a pot, thousand years old, that means that almost all the functional matters have been... have found their solution. And this space, which is left, is still a space related to the emotions, not so much to the function. You cannot invent so much in my field.
Question: Is design a luxury?Alessi: Depends from what you think is a luxury. Design, for me, for all the Italian design factories phenomenon, is a new and very contemporary form of art and poetry. Then, is art and poetry a luxury? I leave to you the question. Question: How do you balance functionality with art?Alessi: It depends very much from the area where you are working in. For example, my personal job in my work, I am dealing with the objects that are hundreds of years old, if not millenary sold. If you think how old this bowl or a cup or a pot, thousand years old, that means that almost all the functional matters have been... have found their solution. And this space, which is left, is still a space related to the emotions, not so much to the function. You cannot invent so much in my field.
Question: Is design a luxury?Alessi: Depends from what you think is a luxury. Design, for me, for all the Italian design factories phenomenon, is a new and very contemporary form of art and poetry. Then, is art and poetry a luxury? I leave to you the question. Question: How do you balance functionality with art?Alessi: It depends very much from the area where you are working in. For example, my personal job in my work, I am dealing with the objects that are hundreds of years old, if not millenary sold. If you think how old this bowl or a cup or a pot, thousand years old, that means that almost all the functional matters have been... have found their solution. And this space, which is left, is still a space related to the emotions, not so much to the function. You cannot invent so much in my field.