Alessi — La Bella Tavola ES21/76 | Porcelain coffee cup

There is something radically simple about the coffee cup from the La Bella Tavola collection: a formal purity that requires no justification, a whiteness that is not absence but fullness. Made of pristine porcelain, with its 8 cl capacity designed for the espresso ritual, this cup exists on the boundary between an object for use and an aesthetic statement. Holding it between your fingers is already a completed gesture. La Bella Tavola bears the signature of Ettore Sottsass, a foundational figure in twentieth-century Italian design, founder of the Memphis movement and an inimitable voice in an architecture of objects that could be provocation and poetry in the same breath. And yet here Sottsass chooses restraint: no colour, no ornament, no visible irony. Only the essential form of a cup that wants to be, above all, perfect. An exercise in style in its highest sense - one that does not show itself, but is felt. At Stilmobili, we chose La Bella Tavola because we believe that a well-set table is a cultural act, not merely a domestic one. This cup is for those who want every morning to have the same dignity as a special occasion, for those who see the white of porcelain not as a neutral choice but as a precise position in the world. It is ideal as a single collectible piece or as the foundation of a distinctive complete tableware set. Project notes: white porcelain, capacity 8 cl, diameter 7 cm, weight 90 g. Part of the La Bella Tavola collection designed by Ettore Sottsass for Alessi. Spring/summer season.