ORONDA TEA SET

It was 1983 when the Milanese architect and designer Alessandro Mendini invited ten colleagues to participate in the show Tea & Coffee Piazza with the objective being to create a tea set for the Italian brand Alessi. This unusual meeting, that marked the decade and then became a promotional model as it was copied by many other companies, had one unexpected result: an unknown 42 years old Catalan designed a tea set that Alessi decided to produce and sell as a complete set. It was then that Mendini told Oscar Tusquets that he had become "one of the 11 best architects in the world, simply by designing a tea set".