Alessi has introduced Vite: a new Alessi espresso coffee maker. Launched ahead of Milan Design Week 2026, Alessi presented the Vite espresso coffee maker at a special Sunday brunch, where its designer, Phlippe Malouin, welcomed and cooked breakfast for guests.
Vite is the Anglo-Canadian designer Philippe Malouin’s first collaboration with Alessi. Through an approach entirely unprecedented in the company’s history, Malouin’s work is renowned for its distinctive capacity of formal synthesis, with a style may be described as a kind of ‘refined brutalism’; he works on essential geometries, assembling fragments and metal offcuts (mostly metallic) in a creative process that Malouin himself defines ‘Scrapyard Works’ a method that begins quite literally in a scrapyard.
The Vite project originated with a visit to the scrapyard in Ossola (a vast Alpine area in Piedmont, just a few minutes from the shores of Lake Orta, the area where Alessi is based) and where Malouin identified a series of primary forms and combined them into various formal proposals. From these studies, one configuration was chosen as the basis for development into the final product. The boiler of the coffee maker resembles a screw (vite in Italian): the twisting motion required for its use becomes clear, natural, and immediately understandable. Realised through aluminium die-casting, Vite unites industrial aesthetics softened by a sense of balanced proportion and an obsessive attention to detail – a hallmark of Malouin’s poetics. In contrast to the aluminium body, the knob, handle and top are colourful; colours derived from research conducted within the Alessi workshop in a sophisticated dialogue between object and place of production.
Three versions are available — green, brown, and grey — plus a fourth model featuring an aluminum body and dark-green handle, offered exclusively on alessi.com and in Alessi Flagship Stores.
