The Italian manufacturer Alessi is famous for taking ordinary tools and objects and turn them into extraordinary contemporary designs with the help of well-known designers and architects like Michael Graves, Richard Sapper, Philippe Starck, Alessandro Mendini, Mateo Thun, Ettore Sottsass, Stefano Giovannoni, Ron Arad, Lluis Clotet, Karim Rashid and many more. Today their products are part of more permanent museum collections than from any other design company!