Anyone tuned in to CBS Sunday Morning on May 31 couldn't possibly have missed seeing the soft-spoken gentleman with his blue-handled, stainless steel teakettle, a red bird perched at the end of its spout. That wasn't just any teakettle. It was the Alessi Whistling Bird Teakettle by Michael Graves Architecture & Design -- an iconic, postmodern masterpiece first produced in 1984. Since then, more than a million have been sold. (Full disclosure: This writer has been boiling water in his own since 1...
Anyone tuned in to CBS Sunday Morning on May 31 couldn't possibly have missed seeing the soft-spoken gentleman with his blue-handled, stainless steel teakettle, a red bird perched at the end of its spout. That wasn't just any teakettle. It was the Alessi Whistling Bird Teakettle by Michael Graves Architecture & Design -- an iconic, postmodern masterpiece first produced in 1984. Since then, more than a million have been sold. (Full disclosure: This writer has been boiling water in his own since 1...
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