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    31 rue Boissy d'Anglas
    75008
    PARIS
    FRANCE
    T. 01 42 66 14 61
    F. 01 42 66 27 24
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    31, rue de Boissy d'Anglas 75008 Paris tél : 01 42 66 31 00

    Alessi France

    Activités : Manufacturer, Designer  , Dealer
    The Alessi family is rooted on Lake Orta from time immemorial. We come from Luzzogno, the oldest village in the Strona Valley. The first Alessi I found track called John, and in 1633 he married to a certain Caterina Gozano Luzzogno. Him do not know more, and I also know of eight generations that separate it from me. I am, however, convinced that my ancestors were among the many men from the Strona Valley who, beginning in the 18th century, have gone up in Germany, to learn the craft of pewter-makers. Some of them were by luck, others have returned home and opened the first workshops. The history of metal household of Omegna (and Crusinallo, which is a suburb), today one of the most dynamic centres in Europe for this type of production, was born as well. The first of the home metal industry of the area of Cusio was Baldassarre Cane, that already in the mid-1800s had the courage to leave Chesio (another village in the Strona Valley) and get off at the level of the Lake to establish the first true workshop, destined to become an important industry at the turn of the new century, now closed. In the following decades his example was followed by several dozens of artisans-entrepreneurs, often formed as workers inside the factory. Over a century and a half, other metals have replaced pewter: brass, nickel silver, aluminum and stainless steel, the development cycle is ongoing; but have not changed nor the types nor the nature of the products, and my city is still characterized by this narrow industrial monoculture. Along the shores of Lake San Giulio, Romanesque churches and Baroque chapels, the factories of home have become a point of reference, which gives a strong socio-cultural connotation. Even my grandfather, Giovanni Alessi, was a craftsman-entrepreneur. By ancient tradition productive, tough, traditionalist and even a bit stuffy, has blossomed our entrepreneurial adventure, which is highly innovative, open to experimentation and to the paradox that arises from an array of poetry. From "workshop for the working of brass and nickel plate, with Foundry" (so reads the sign of our stand at the first tradeshows in Milan in the 1920s) the Alessi became one of the "factories of Italian design". Switching from engineering to laboratory research in the field of applied arts was progressive and took several decades, but it was a nice transitional game, which perhaps can be proposed as possible model of evolution for many types of industries in our consumer society.
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