Designed 1980-1983; made 1985
Tray from a Tea and Coffee Service
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In 1980, Venturi sent Alessi a proposal for this "stylized traditional" service, in which every piece was inspired by a silver form from a different historical period. Each was intended to be decorated according to its historical model and colored. "You will see that I have kept the historical symbolism," Venturi wrote to Alessi, "but made the aesthetic involve a more disparate eclecticism with a more or less Rococo coffee pot, a Queen Anne tea pot, a Neo-Classical sugar bowl and Art Nouveau cream pitcher. The Piazza Campidoglio remains the tray." The service was introduced in 1983.
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