Dressed Butter Knife (Stainless steel) - Alessi

The elegant Dressed butter knife is part of the “Dressed” collection, designed by Marcel Wanders for Alessi.

The name of the series itself, Dressed, highlights the notion that decoration should be designed, like a beautiful dress, to bring out the contents, without being overpowering.

It is made of 18/10 stainless steel and features a discreet relief decoration that reinterprets French baroque style. The relief decor was produced with an innovative rolling technology that gives its objects an irresistible three-dimensionality.

Traditionally, the rules would require that decoration be applied in the most important and most visible areas of the object. Wanders, on the other hand, applies it to secluded areas, a little out of sight, sometimes even in areas that aren’t normally visible at all, so much so that we could call it a sort of introverted decoration.

In this way, even though he uses a language of signs that is very rich and complex, a bit flowery, a little baroque, Wanders manages to maintain a certain level of overall elegance and lightness.