Italian Faces

Sandro Chia, the famous trans-avant-garde artist, enthusiastically
welcomed illycaffès invitation to decorate a signed and numbered illy
collection in great demand with collectors. The great artist, with his
chromatic and formal study, decorated the cups analyzing faces and
their structures. Each cup is a great tribute to an important Italian city:
Florence, Milan, Rome, Siena, Venice, Trieste, and Pompei. Only a few
copies of the seventh city and last cup were produced.

Ceramica I

For the Paris inauguration of the Marino Marini, Place Vendome
exhibit dedicated to the great Tuscan sculptor, illycaffè produced a
limited number of cups. The cup features a sketch with equestrian
figures, designed by the artist in 1955. These limited cups were
distributed during special events.

Trazzine

Luca Trazzi, an architect and designer, created a striking
psychedelic illy Collection that emerges from fathomless blue
depths. For the first time, dishes were also decorated. The subjects
are vivid and portrayed in cartoon-like colors. Ladybugs, turtles,
alligators, and fish play an endless ringaround-a-rosy on the silky
porcelain surfaces. Joining these more placid images are the
flames of a malevolent, grinning Lucifer and a devil with pitchfork
maneuvering amidst toothed gears in a postmodern inferno.

Arms, Limbs, Feet and Parts

This is the first illy cappuccino cups collection and artist Andrea
Manetti interpreted it with great irony. Through the use of
appropriation art, she assembled 17th and 18th century images
while adding her own impudent touches. Details and parts of
female bodies follow and touch each other. Hands that seek and
offer, that caress comely, or that slim bodies cover the surfaces of
these cups identified with titles of irresistible impact.

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