Alessi — Dressed MW01/3 | Porcelain bowl with raised decoration

There is something deeply homely and at the same time extraordinary about the Dressed bowl: the white porcelain, pristine and smooth to the touch, comes alive through a raised decoration that transforms the surface into a silent story. The pattern emerges discreetly, like an ancient embroidery impressed into the material, inviting the fingers to follow its path before the eyes have fully understood it. With its fifteen-centimeter diameter and generous capacity of fifty-three centiliters, this bowl lends itself with equal grace to breakfast in the morning and dessert in the evening.

Dressed is one of Marcel Wanders' most beloved creations for Alessi - a Dutch designer with a visionary, baroque perspective, capable of reinterpreting the classic with a postmodern lightness that never slips into kitsch. The collection takes its name from a precise idea: dressing the table, giving it an outfit, restoring to the act of eating that lost ceremony belonging to the great European tradition of the decorative arts. Each piece in the Dressed line is conceived as a component of an elegant, coordinated, timeless domestic wardrobe.

We at Stilmobili chose Dressed because it perfectly embodies the tension that belongs to us: beauty that does not renounce function, detail that does not become excess. It is the ideal gift for those who love to set the table with intention, for the design collector who wants the table to be an extension of their own taste, and for anyone seeking an object capable of conversing equally well with a contemporary kitchen and a more classically styled dining room.

Project notes: white porcelain with raised decoration, diameter 15 cm, capacity 53 cl, net weight 332 g. Part of the Dressed by Marcel Wanders collection for Alessi, spring/summer line.