Wednesday, August 31, 2011

"Pepper Mill" by Michael Graves 1988

Designed by the twentieth-century Post-modern architect Michael Graves for Alessi.  Its top part resembles the ears of Mickey Mouse.  The forms are sleek and clear.  The viewer is reminded that Mickey Mouse is a cheerful fellow whom most of us have known since childhood, and we are amused and reassured to find an abstract version of him on our dinner table.  

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