Coffeepot, 1983

  • Alessi, S.p.a., Italian, founded 1921
  • Stanley Tigerman, American, 1930 - 2019

Silver plate

  • Overall: 8 1/4 × 3 5/8 × 5 5/8 inches (21 × 9.2 × 14.3 cm)

Founders Society Purchase with funds from Founders Junior Council, James Pearson Duffy Fund, Lenora and Alfred Glancy Foundation Fund, Modern Decorative Arts and Sculpture Fund, Dr. and Mrs. George Kamperman Fund, Mr. and Mrs. Alvan Macauley, Jr. Fund

1986.30.1

1986-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Tea and Coffee Piazza. Exh. cat., Officina Alessi and Max Protetch Gallery. New York, 1983, pp. 12, 30, 62-65 (ill.). Hellman, Mimi. “Making Coffee at Home in America: Episodes in the Cultural History of Design.” In Coffee, Tea, and Chocolate: Consuming the World, ed. Yao-Fen You, Mimi Hellman, and Hope Saska. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 2016, pp. 117–118, fig. 4 (ill.).

Stanley Tigerman; Alessi, S.p.a., Coffeepot, 1983, silver plate. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase with funds from Founders Junior Council, James Pearson Duffy Fund, et al., 1986.30.1.