About Unica HomeThe upshot of filling your home with decorative accessories and functional furnishings is that you have to look at these items every day of your life. In the interest of making it all more interesting, here’s a fine selection of intriguing ultramodern designs that should keep things fresh whether you’re entertaining or just [...]
Several decades ago, people are just simply following the latest trends in fashion. They wear the clothes that they often see in magazines which apparently, the same clothes flourishing at the malls. Because of this, you will see more and more people in a street wearing the same clothes. This was an unfortunate situation because [...]
Alesandro Mendini, who should have been named Mendini the Great, was born in Milan, Italy in 1931. He is one of the leading Italian designers in furniture and architect. He was the founding member of the Free School of Individual Creativity. He has also been linked to the success of the foundation Casabella 1971-1976, Modo [...]
Grater in stainless steel with integrated bowl in coloured PMMA plastic. This is another Alessi piece that is nearing iconic status. It’s brilliance lies in the fact that it works really well it grates parmesan, it holds parmesan in the bowl, it shakes parmesan from its bowl. Stainless steel graters may be of different styles and [...]
In terms of brand awareness, your money would probably be safe if you bet that more people were aware of MG than Alessi. So why then is the later a highly regarded and profitable organisation demonstrating European design flair and quality, while the former spent years as an object of ridicule until it finally went [...]
Beautiful Stones - Worn With PassionRhinestonesThe Rhine in ‘rhinestones’ comes from the Rhine River, where the rock crystals were originally gathered, and the ‘Rhinestone’ is a translation into English of the French phrase ‘Caillou du Rhin’.The idea of coating the lower side of the glass with metal powder enabled stones to imitate diamonds and a [...]
