Last spring, as retail sales were tanking worldwide, the Italian design firm Alessi ramped up. On Wednesday, at its flagship Soho store in New York, the company announced that it would unveil three ...

MILAN — Italian home decor firm Alessi said Monday that former Furla executive Alberto Camerlengo is its new chief executive officer as the company continues to focus on international growth and ...

MILAN — Alessi may be marking its 100th anniversary, but president Alberto Alessi is clearly one to look ahead rather than back. So much so that the exhibition to be staged during Milan Design Week is ...

For those at a loss for what to see in the dizzying array of NYCxDesign programming, the Italians and French can surely guide you in the right direction. Italian design company Alessi, working with ...

The whimsical Alessi bird whistle tea kettle, designed by architect Michael Graves in 1985, is the company's best-selling item of all time. Courtesy of Alessi, design by Michael Graves Tiny, ...

Moon, Youngme E., Vincent Dessain, and Anders Sjoman. "Alessi: Evolution of an Italian Design Factory (B)." Harvard Business School Case 504-019, September 2003. (Revised February 2004.) ...

FEW PEOPLE HAVE BROUGHT more beauty, style and whimsy to housewares than 70-year-old Alberto Alessi. Since he joined his family’s Italian company in 1970, he has commissioned almost 300 architects and ...

Moon, Youngme E. "Alessi: Evolution of an Italian Design Factory (A)-(D) (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 506-057, March 2006.

OMEGNA, Italy, Nov 1 (Reuters) - A giant silver teapot shines in the pale sun outside the Alessi factory, its scale a measure of how in the 1980s and 90s Italian kitchenware, from espresso-makers to ...