100 YEARS ALESSI - VALUES COLLECTION - LIMITED EDITION Ettore Sottsass reinterprets a classic of the kitchen, with its distinctive language of colorful and overlapping elements. Ideal for storing dry foods such as rice, pasta, cookies, sugar, salt or coffee. The natural and pure glass body preserves the flavor and aroma of the food. MATERIAL The jar is absolutely food safe. The varnish of the Italian lime wood is water-based, completely solvent-free, ecological and is not harmful to health. ETTORE SOTTSASS born in Innsbruck in 1917, known at the international level as one of the initiators of the renewal of design and architecture, thanks to him it was possible to overcome the stiff functionalism of the pre- and post-war years of the Second World War. In the language of the great and influential master of Italian design, potential energy and vitality are expressed in design and color, as a contrast to any kind of intellectualism and stiffness. Dies 2007.