Alessi Blow up Mat

Alessi 'Blow Up' Mat FC01

The stunning Blow Up is a series of items that uses strips of wire to create containers. The designers, Humberto Campana, lawyer and Fernando Campana, architect, have been working together in San Paolo since 1983 in the field of artistic design. They came into the limelight in 1989 with the furniture exhibition provocatively entitled Gli inconfortabili (The Inconsolable), a political manifesto rather than functional objects. Their radical point of view is strengthened by the use of poor materials and industrial rubbish. Hand-made products represent the possibility of social redemption in a poor country. Their intention is, however, to find a way for Brazilian design, avoiding European colonisation. In Italy, they participated in the Viaggio in Italia exhibition at Abitare il Tempo in Verona in 1994 and in 1995 at the exhibition organised at the Brazilian Consulate in Milan Il Brasile fa anche design. In 1997 they designed lights for O Luce. Some of their pieces appear in the International Design Year Book of 1997, edited by Philippe Starck. 18/10 mirror polished stainless steel

Product details

Alessi ‘Blow up’ design serving mat

• Brand - Alessi
• Designer – Fratelli Campana
• Year of Design - 2004
• Material – 18/10 mirror polished stainless steel
• Dimensions – diameter 40.5 cm x 39.5 cm
• Gift boxed