Carlo Alessi
1916 -
CARLO ALESSI was born in Granerolo in 1916. He studied design at the Istituto OMAR in Novara and in the early 1930s, when still very young, he joined his father's business. Around the mid 1930s he designed many ALESSI objects among which "The Octagonal Tea and Coffee set", "Scalini", "The Cilindrico tea and coffee service" and "The Bombé tea and coffee service". Towards the end of the '40s he became the company's general manager. Today he is the ALESSI president.
