Guixe's clock lets you personalize the time with an erasable pen. Feeling sad? Make the 2 ten past "blue." Your anniversary? Make 11 a time for "heaven." A new term for every hour, 24 hours a day.
Put out a tray of hors d'oeuvres at your next party with the command, "Mingle!" This playful collection of objects lets you communicate with your friends, family, or guests via "speaking balloons." Leave a message for your spouse: "Start dinner," in the Post-it Plant, or steer the kids away from the Oreos to the fruit with a simple arrow: "Eat me."
Czech designer Jan Kaplicky, who died last year, left behind the design for a set of cutlery intended for use as airline silverware. Named "Zlin" after the legendary Czechoslovakian fighter planes, the cutlery has been produced in blue, green and yellow plastic, for use in the most aerodynamic picnics, or offsites at McDonnell Douglas.
Not to be outdone by Philippe Starck or Michael Graves, Piero Lissoni now has his own toilet brush. Plus, soap dish, cotton swab holder, and towel stand.
This is design genius at its best: a sleek little bathroom wastebasket in scrub-able plastic, with a hinged lid that hides refuse, and a ringed anchor to keep a removable plastic bag in place -- and invisible. Brilliant!
Design rock stars Fernando and Umberto Campana are passionate about natural materials, so it was only natural that they should update their iconic "Blow Up" collection for Alessi in a new material -- bamboo. Each stick is hand-tied with raffia soaked in non-toxic glue. The pieces look like chopsticks caught in a hurricane and frozen in time.
Koskinen says he named this bamboo box a "fat tray" because everything you need to serve coffee or tea can be packed inside. Then the lid can be used as a serving tray.
As beautiful as a bracelet from Tiffany, Gerosa's spaghetti measuring device, "Voile," is part of Alessi's Objet Bijou collection. It can measure spaghetti for one, three or five people. Perfect as a wedding gift for the bride with style who knows her way around a spaghetti carbonara.
This matte-finished version of Morrison's best-selling mirror-polished cookware collection features a lip to make pouring easy, and lids that can be lifted with a wooden spoon to save burnt fingers.
Functional enough for a room service coffee pot, yet elegant enough for home use, this stainless steel carafe has a lid that opens 180 degrees and a double-walled insulting body.
At last -- an elegant way to solve the spicy chili problem! This little gizmo, also part of the beautifully indulgent Objet Bijou collection, lets you chop chilis without getting their irritating oils on your skin. And it's shaped like the good luck charms that folks in Naples wear around their necks. What's not to love? Maybe the price...
Six new mirror-polished finishes for Alessi's popular collection of serving dishes in bright, Pop-Art colors.
"Zouhria" means "flower vase" in Maghrebi Arabic. This limited edition vase has been years in the making by Italian architecture team Doriana and Massimilliano Fuksas.
This cat-shaped hook is a playful riff on a functional object by young Belgian designer Frederic Gooris. Available in both stainless and black.
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