ALESSI PRESENTS THE TENDING BOX
Designed by Giulio Iacchetti with mixologist Oscar Quagliarini, Alessi presents The Tending Box renews the traditional tools for the preparation of cocktails, combining refined aesthetics with functionality.
| “The Tending Box project moves along three main directions, i.e. translating Oscar’s requests into a coherent form, exploring the archetype and its reinterpretation, and lastly studying how to innovate, even with small movements forward, the set of implements for the preparation of cocktails.”Giulio Iacchetti |
| The most classic implements of this discipline are reinterpreted in a balanced synthesis between shape and function: a cocktail shaker, a mixing glass, a strainer, a measure for cocktails, a mixing spoon and whisk take on new technical features and sophisticated aesthetic details. |
| “The Tending box meets the needs of professionals and less experts, combining aesthetics with high performance. The Parisienne cocktail shaker doesn’t slip away; the mixing glass with its weighted base eases the stirring; the mixing spoon follows the mixologist’s movements in an elegant, flowing and silent manner. The Quadri Combo Jigger measuring cup epitomises in a single object all of the versatility of this must-have accessory. The Baton Lelè whisk, with different-length tips, recreates the simplicity of the original instrument. But it is possibly the apparent simplicity of the strainer that encapsulates the true complexity of the project, with its double spring that enables the bartender to choose the optimal filtration quality, to fully enhance each drink”.Oscar Quagliarini |
| The series is made of stainless steel 18/10. The objects making up The Tending Box are proposed both individually and in two different sets, to build up, extend or rethink your personal collection as a mixologist. |
COCKTAIL SHAKER “PARISIENNE”
In line with the trends of contemporary mixology, which prefers it to the other types of cocktail shakers, the “Parisienne” is reinterpreted by Giulio Iacchetti defining a new and surprising standard of being easy to handle. The soft design of the upper glass dialogues in contrast with the fine line of the knob, balancing its composition and giving firmness to the mixologist’s grip.
MIXING GLASS
An understated design in harmonious synthesis with extreme functionality: a must have for the mixologist.
DOUBLE BAR STRAINER
The double strainer conceals in an innovative design great professional and aesthetic characteristic. The moon openings allow an easy identification of the springs that leave complete freedom to the imagination of mixologists who can choose the best quality of filtration to fully show off their preparations to the best. The knob allows to modulate the pressure of the strainer on the cup, adjusting the filtering capacity of the springs. Thanks to the knob, it can be used with one hand, and it can be safely and hygienically rested on the worktop.
“QUADRI COMBO JIGGER”
Giulio Iacchetti with Oscar Quagliarini compose around a ring the four measures usually used in preparing cocktails, thinking back in the design to the very gesture of dosing: in its harmonious rotation between the fingers the Quadri Combo Jigger organically merges with the fluid movements of the mixologist.
MIXING SPOON
No Mixologist’s kit can be without the classic mixing spoon which Giulio Iacchetti reinvents giving it an eye-catching and contemporary line. The collaboration with Oscar Quagliarini has led to the development of an object with professional characteristics, where weight, length and shape are the product of an attentive study of the implement and its uses.
“BÂTON LÉLÉ” STIRRER
Traditionally a twig of Quararibea turbinata, a typical Caribbean plant, is used, but in the interpretation by Giulio Iacchetti this fundamental accessory of the mixologist is crystallized in stainless steel.