Spiritelli Collection

by Studio Alchimia, 1991

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The Spiritelli Collection was initiated by Alessandro Guerriero, a prominent artist and designer who founded the post-radical avant-garde group Alchimia. Drawing inspiration from the Roman culture, which involved appeasing household spirits thought to protect families and homes, Guerriero aimed to create objects for the home, each with its own unique story and spirit. He successfully engaged over thirty artists, culminating in an impressive collection of twenty-nine remarkable objects.

Spiritelli – Objects that keep us company.
by Alessandro Guerriero, 1990

Some things in the house have an individual sensitivity, a way of being that could be defined as a soul, and some objects seem specially made to possess a soul.
These objects, function aside, have wholeheartedly accepted and adopted the characteristics of real people.
We are at home, and they keep us company: they watch us, listen to us, talk to us, move, and have their own secret history that only we can understand.
In them reigns a collection of adventures and passions. Our relationship with them is indeterminate, fluid, almost like a dream.
They are a pretext and an opportunity to experience an undefined enterprise that pushes beyond its own limits: a bit artistic, a bit hero and victim, a bit cynical and aesthetic. They are roommates, just like us.