★ Featured Exhibit ★
Catalog record
20

Juicy Salif

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Juicy Salif
20
Accession no.
20
Regret level
A lemon squeezer promoted beyond the distracting burden of squeezing lemons.
Collection color
#b8b6ae

★ Curator’s Notes ★

Philippe Starck’s three-legged aluminum citrus squeezer looks like a kitchen tool awaiting instructions from the mothership. A museum describes it as too unstable to be practical, while Starck said it was meant to start conversations. Design solved the lemon problem by changing the subject.

Sources: Museum of the Home · Alessi

Image: Riccardo Cambiassi, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Philippe Starck's three-legged aluminum citrus squeezer looks like a kitchen tool awaiting instructions from the mothership. A museum describes it as too unstable to be practical, while Starck said it was meant to start conversations. Design solved the lemon problem by changing the subject.
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