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
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