Alessi has released a range of products designed by Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA, as part of the Italian tableware brand's Spring/Summer 2007 collection (via dezain).
Fruit Basket Family (above) is a stainless steel range consisting of a tea service, storage tins, a tray and several other pieces, all shaped like apples and pears.
SANAA have also designed a set of bone china mocha cups (above) as part of the Fruit Basket family, plus a set of four stainless steel coffee spoons (top image) with handles shaped like stylised branches.
Fruit Family teapot
Sugar bowl
Sugar and cream set
Kitchen box (small)
Kitchen box (large)
Creamer
Tray
Beautiful forms, apple like, plump with tiny stems, which gets to the handles, all of which hardly work for a hand of any size. Looks before function. Too bad.
thats true