Michael Graves Stainless Steel Whistling Bird Kettle by Alessi

Description

This celebrated kettle with the bird that sings when the water has boiled has been a great success since it was introduced in 1985. For Alessi it represents a meeting of great design and mass production methods, a combination that Michael Graves worked hard to achieve, applying his personal visual code which fused influences from Art Deco to Pop Art and even the language of cartoons. This object appeared in the movies: Mr. Crocodile Dundee (Crocodile Dundee, P.Faiman, 1986), Ghost (Ghost, J.Zucker, 1990), Alice (Alice, W.Allen, 1990), Amatemi (Amatemi, R. De Maria, 2005) and Per una notte d’amore (Per una notte d’amore, V. Sindoni, 2008).

Material: PA,18/10 stainless steel
Dimensions: 8.66″Dia x 8.86″H
Capacity: 67.6 fl oz

See the Michael Graves collection.

Michael Graves

Born in Indianapolis, he taught architecture at Princeton since 1962. His architectural works include the Portland Building and the Humana Building, the extension of the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Newark Museum. He created the best-selling 9093 kettle for Alessi. Michael Graves died in 2015.