Alessi Ossidiana Coffee Maker

Mon Mar 21, 2022AluminiumMario TrimarchiBlack, AluminumAlessi, S.p.a.

OSSIDIANA COFFEE MAKER

OSSIDIANA COFFEE MAKER

Designed By Mario Trimarchi

Attentive to the narrative capacity of objects, the Sicilian architect Mario Trimarchi designed Ossidiana espresso coffee maker. A project created, like the other ones of the designer, from memories and fragments of images narrated through an object's form.

DESIGNER

MARIO TRIMARCHI

Mario Trimarchi, born in Sicily, has lived and worked in Milan since 1983. He has been Director of Advanced Design at the Domus Academy and part of the Olivetti Design Studio, where he worked with Michele De Lucchi. In 1999 he founded his own Corporate Identity Care studio, FRAGILE.

With FRAGILE he designs systems of identity, coordinated image and visual alphabets through which diverse individualities can be expressed. He has designed many trademarks, most notably for Poste Italiane, the graphics for numerous large exhibitions, communications systems for Italian design companies and, finally, many displays and interiors.