An Alessi Lluis Clotet port basket, marked 'Alessi Italy Inox 18/1 cm, length luis Clotet 2001', stainless steel with edge decorated using the steel plate cold-pressing technique. Mirror polished. Clotet, who is especially active in architecture but who has also made a number of interesting designs of objects, was fascinated by the playful crumpling of a tray in silver paper and reproduced the effect in a successful mini-series of trays and baskets, in which the crumpled edge is achieved using a complex technique of cold-pressing in a single operation. Depth 37 cm, height 6 cm