During this week, we actually had a chance to visit the Alessi museum. It wasn’t quite a museum as told by the host, but it was something to behold. Even the extravagant way in which our guide moved the shelves was amazing. With this turnstile type wheel, the shelves were moved across the floor and pushed each other into one direction in order to get to the shelf beside the one being pushed. It was amazing and a remarkable use of engineering and creative genius. The entire presentation of the items in this museum was amazing. There was constantly something interesting to look at and another interesting story to back it up. One of my absolute favorites was how the son of the original owners, made his own by bringing in amazing artists such as Salvador Dali to come in and create an interesting piece of their own. It was so great to see someone born from such a creative family to admire the art of those around them and understand the importance of these artists when it comes to the inspiration of great design. It was even interesting seeing how architects were the main assets for design genius during this time and weren’t used for strictly designing buildings, but also modeling their tea set to the shape of cities.