Now, with Alessandro Mendini’s creative incursion into this stylistically homogenous unit, Alessi once again confirms its willingness to challenge, by multiplying expressive languages and with a charismatic ability to test itself with products possessing a healthy provocative streak. Alberto Alessi himself is happy to admit that when he asked Mendini to invent a new product to widen its range of electric items, he fully expected a completely different, if not totally contrasting, design approach to the one used by Giovannoni.