Juicy Salif, the citrus squeezer by Philippe Starck for Alessi is remarkable.
It’s the icon of food design. It’s the “object”. Could be a sculpture. A portable sculpture. Of course is a tool to keep in your kitchen but at the same time it could be happily useless even if is usefull. You can leave it on the dining room’s table or in your bathroom and it has the same appeal. Always. This project totally revolutioned the idea of designing tools for cocking. Ain’t no doubt Philips eletrical tools were since the beginning a new path of design by forms belong technical skills and necessities satisfaction, but with Juicy Salif a new wave has been celebrated. The revolution has began. A new story in late ’90 has been written, a page from history of design. The other milestone are the glasses named Smoke designed earlier (1964) by Joe Colombo for Anrnolfo Di Cambio, but this is another story…
www.alessi.com/en/2/110/kitchen-accessories/psjs-juicy-salif-citrus-squeezer
