Product Overview
Vite / 6 Cup warm grey-grey
Espresso Maker
Philippe Malouin for Alessi 2026
Aluminum/Thermoplastic Resin
[H 20.5 x W 12 x L 17cm / Capacity: 30cl]
Suitable for all types of cooktops, including induction, the Vite espresso coffee maker is a small industrial sculpture. The boiler echoes the shape of a screw (vite in Italian), a direct reference to the gesture of its use; the contrast between the natural aluminum and the color of the tank further emphasises this reference. The color variants, sampled from the machinery and tools of the Alessi workshop, complete its sophisticated mechanical identity.
The Vite project was conceived in a completely unprecedented way in the history of Alessi. Malouin himself uses the term Scrapyard Works: a creative process that quite literally begins in scrapyards, where the designer retrieves metal fragments and gives them new life through recomposition and reinterpretation. The coffee maker’s boiler echoes the form of a screw, a direct reference to the gesture involved in using the object. The aluminum of the boiler, contrasted with the coloured tank, further emphasizes this connection. Colour is another central theme of the Vite project. The colour variants, sampled from the machinery and tools of the Alessi workshop, complete its sophisticated mechanical identity.
