From the MCA store website with editorials from me:

“The Virgil Abloh Tea Kettle in an iconographic clash, somewhere between Dadaist collage and musical remix [🧐], reinterprets Michael Graves' unmistakable kettle. The whistle is completely redesigned, taking the form of a basketball player who crushes with power to the basket [🫠], while the colors of the handle and the knob are lit with an intense purple [actually is a very nice color!]. The Virgil Abloh Tea Kettle by Virgil Abloh Securities represents Alessi's second encounter with Abloh and the first reinterpretation of an Alessi icon ever made, opening up a new chapter of Alessi's history.

Designed in 1985 [shoutout to the millennium lookers!] by American architect Michael Graves, the original kettle was made famous by its recognizable features: its cone shaped geometry and whimsical bird-shaped whistle. Before his passing, Virgil Abloh reinterpreted the iconic design under his creative corporation Virgil Abloh Securities. The Virgil Abloh Tea Kettle changes up the original design with a vibrant purple handle and whistle, the latter now a basketball player in mid-air dunking a ball [didn’t we just cover this?].”

Anyway—really fun piece I’m selling for steal. List price is $295! Edition of 9,999, which honestly seems like kind of a lot? Eh. It’s a fun piece!