Merdolino Toilet Brush - Blue - des. Stefano Giovannoni Swiss but their mission has stayed

but their mission has stayed the same: to design and build goods that show off the beauty of science while trying to leave the world just a little better than they found it

features David Hockney's 1994 Design for Salts Diner Plate

robust base and gracefully rounded form

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Alvar Aalto is possibly the most enduringly influential of all Scandinavian designers

Merdolino Toilet Brush - Blue - des. Stefano Giovannoni Swiss but their mission has stayedThe well known Merdolino Toilet Brush is one of the many successful examples of playful cartoon language that epitomise Stefano Giovannoni's iconic 1990s designs for Alessi. Without any hesitation, in Giovannoni's hands the toilet brush is reinvented as a slim blue pot housing a lovely green shrub. On its arrival, the Merdolino Toilet Brush caused a scandal among the conventional design fraternity but has enjoyed enormous success throughout the