Alberto Alessi on Luxury in Design
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.
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.
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