Comments on: Cringe List, Part 1: Alessi https://ounodesign.com/2009/01/20/cringe-list-part-1/ Mon, 19 Aug 2013 21:37:06 +0000 hourly 1 By: Christopher https://ounodesign.com/2009/01/20/cringe-list-part-1/#comment-255 Mon, 19 Aug 2013 21:37:06 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=1858#comment-255 I think what is so annoying about Alessi is just simply that it parades itself as high-end timeless design, delicately sitting on glass shelves in over-priced kitchen and design shops throughout the wealthier parts of Vancouver. It’s like Paris Hilton acting as though she’s sophisticated, well-bred and refined. Alessi’s “cute” quality seems to be mocking any on-lookers, bullying them into buying it under the ruse that a) if it’s expensive, it’s quality, and b) if it can mock and make fun, it must be superior. There’s nothing more annoying than something trashy with money behaving both childish and superior.

]]> By: John Hopper https://ounodesign.com/2009/01/20/cringe-list-part-1/#comment-254 Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:54:49 +0000 http://blog.ounodesign.com/?p=1858#comment-254 It’s good to see that after all these years of constantly being told that British interior design has always been laughably awful (thanks for all those ads Ikea), Europe was just as much in love with velour as the rest of us.

As to Alessi, sometimes you can believe that you are smarter than you really are. These ads come across as being produced by either snickering adolescents at best, misogynists at their worst.

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