by Dan F. Stapleton

According to Alberto Alessi, "Australian designers are like mushrooms in a forest: at first you can see just one, but the more you look, the more you spot – another here, another there." 

Alessi, the third-generation head of the esteemed Italian homewares brand that bears his family's name, is sitting in a suite at the Shangri-La hotel in Sydney, with his company's most iconic products artfully arranged on a table beside him. The trip to Australia is part of a personal quest to learn more about our design DNA.

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Source: http://www.afr.com/