Architect Jan Kaplicky of Future Systems has designed a table service for Italian brand Alessi.
The Bettina range includes porcelain tableware, glasses and cutlery.
Bettina will be launched on 1 July.
Here’s some info from Alessi:
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“Bettina”: table service by Jan Kaplicky, Future Systems
The “Bettina” table service, certainly Alessi’s most innovative design in this area, took a long time to complete. It was designed by Future Systems (the designers who, you may remember, were also asked to work on “Tea & Coffee Towers” (2003)). New glasses, new porcelain and new cutlery.
Many sketches, designs and prototypes were needed to achieve the elegant, simple result described by Jan Kaplicky as being “designed for the future. More artistic. More beautiful. Maybe future classics, very much in line with Future Systems’ other architectural and design projects.”
“Porcelain. New shapes in tableware. Shapes which are more closely related to the size, colour and type of the food and drink the items will hold. Also more closely related to the human form – the shapes are almost free, with gentle curves.
Glasses: a very innovative design consisting of two parts: the glass drinking vessel and a plastic “chassis”. You only drink from the glass section, while the holder stays on the table. There is no physical link between them. An extremely simple shape and an unusual idea.
Cutlery: each item in the service has a brand new shape - very original. More elegant, more refined, more beautiful. All made from stainless steel. They certainly don’t follow fashion”. Jan Kaplicky - Future Systems
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Posted by Marcus Fairs
June 20th, 2008 at 1:07 am
The glasses are pretty fricking cool. Not so sure about the rest. The porcelain cups look particularly dumpy, and the cutlery is nothing I’d like to hold in my hand day after day.
June 20th, 2008 at 1:24 am
gorgeous
June 20th, 2008 at 1:32 am
1/3 design+1/3 art+1/3 joke
June 20th, 2008 at 3:49 am
they are the ugliest glasses i’ve ever seen.
and a spoon with off-centre shaft! what a design innovation, having to grip the spoon with a clamping force to avoid stuff landing on your croch.
June 20th, 2008 at 3:55 am
beautiful!
June 20th, 2008 at 7:43 am
I like it.
June 20th, 2008 at 9:56 am
i agree with Mattia
But the plates remind me of hospital kidney dishes …
June 20th, 2008 at 11:37 am
“Cutlery: each item in the service has a brand new shape - very original. More elegant, more refined, more beautiful. All made from stainless steel. They certainly don’t follow fashion””
What’s this shit? >:)
June 20th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
TRULY BEAUTIFUL
June 20th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
Another poetric, beautiful and elegant design by Future Systems.
Jan Kaplicky is still so far ahead of everyone else in the design world!
June 20th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
I can imagine in a minimalist setting these pieces would work beautifully. The designs seems rational especially the dinner plates. Well done!
June 20th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
I would like to see it :”Many sketches, designs and prototypes were needed to achieve the elegant, simple result described by Jan Kaplicky as being “designed for the future. “
June 22nd, 2008 at 2:56 pm
I really love the work but i’m a little concerned about the spoons and knife… what if people aren’t right handed?
June 22nd, 2008 at 6:41 pm
Viktor. I hear that it feels like someone else is feeding if you use your left hand.
June 22nd, 2008 at 9:13 pm
Left-handedness is relatively uncommon: over 90% of the adult population is right-handed. Alessi target market is smaller
June 22nd, 2008 at 11:14 pm
now how many lines must the comment be…?
is there room for smth more than a “nice” or “beautiful” or “ugly”?
is this a space to share tastes or ideas? c’mon dezeen! and don’t ask for moderation.
June 23rd, 2008 at 9:43 am
alessi’s roadmap is blurred since almost a decade ago, keeps on scouting people from different fields to get smth new, which is ok, but they often get aleatory collections like this, in which each element could be evitable, and the whole thing lacks coherence, far from pushing the line forward as they used to, years back.
anway opinions are subjective, and so are designs; so no one’s right except for jan kaplicky….
June 23rd, 2008 at 3:07 pm
So sexy!!! So smooth….so elegant. So new. Well done!
June 23rd, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Interseted
June 24th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
You can find on web the of Alessi’s lauching products process of Alessi, i think the roadmap is clear…. but the road is more and more difficult
June 24th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
managing design
http://www.designcouncil.org.uk/en/About-Design/managingdesign/Design-at-Alessi/