Alessi Orientales Banana Band

A di Alessi Orientales Banana Band from the Banana Family designed by Stefano Giovannoni in collaboration with the National Palace Museum in Taiwan!

Banana Band is a trio of monkey spice holders from the 'Orientales range' featuring the trademark smiling monkey.  Each monkey/container sits on a green island dozing underneath a palm tree/handle.The 'banana family' designed by Stefano Giovannoni marks the start of the third chapter in the 'orientales' series for alessi. Launched at Macef 09 it is a new series of fun loving friends: 'Captain Banana' a friendly monkey shaped corkscrew with an amusing and colourful parrot on his head; 'Don Banana', the head of the tribe 'boss jar'; 'banana babies' a group of place marker monkeys and lastly 'Chin Banana' a toothpick holder with a beguiling smile. Giovannoni designed all characters in collaboration with the Taiwan National Palace Museum.

Product details -

Brand - A di Alessi
Designer - Stefano Giovannoni with Rumiko Takeda
Year of Design – 2009
Material – Thermoplastic Resin, hand decorated
Dimensions – height 16 cm, diameter 15 cm
Gift boxed

Each piece is made from thermoplastic resin and has been hand decorated. The designer of this cooperation between NPM and Alessi is Mr. Stefano GIovannoni, who was born in Florence in 1954. He is at the same time an industrial designer, architectural designer, and interior designer, and is a genius in design. His works are humorous, naïve, and deeply effected by orthodox cartoons. Giovannoni earned the title of the best designer of "Super&Popular" in 2000, his classic design for Alessi includes "Magic Bunny, toothpick holder", "Bunny & Carrot, kitchen roll holder", and "Pino, funnel", etc.

The spirit of the "Orientales" series is "to see eastern stories from the western point of view," and to obtain materials from a wider range of the NPM collections, not limiting to a one-to-one correspondence between a design and a relic, thus having a deeper conception of design than that of the first serious "when the east meets the west."  Giovannoni visited NPM for several times, and was deeply touched by the beauty of the NPM collections. In this project he made a lot of effort to study the content of eastern aesthetic and the long and excellent craftsmanship traditions. Furthermore, he also paid attention to the differences between eastern and western values; through the analysis of words and images, he selected various decorative features of unique style from the western point of view, and created this serious, which is a new interpretation about the natural world and the kingdom of animals. As those of the first series, functions of the products from this second serious are mainly for ordinary dinning tables. Giovannoni skillfully infused his familiar humor and fairy tales styles, hence overthrowing the traditional eastern conceptions, into the products. For example, "Paradise Bird" salt/pepper, "Lotus" small bowl, "Fruit Sugar Bowl", "Lily Pond" sushi set, "Banana Boys" set of 3 caps, "Secret Fish" all-purpose box, and so on, are all lively products from this new series, combining both fantasies and amusement

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