Passengers flying on US airline Delta will be able to eat their in-flight meals from tableware by designers Patricia Urquiola, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, and Humberto and Fernando Campana from next month.
Italian brand Alessi asked some of its best-known designers to create serviceware sets for Delta.

Each has adapted existing items from the company's range into bespoke interpretations, which will be available in the airline's premium cabins.
Spanish designer Urquiola revisited her Orloff bowl, produced from a single, round sheet of metal without the use of welds. It informed a set of faceted containers with similar characteristics.

"I am very attracted to surfaces and their interaction with reflected and diffused light," Urquiola said. "This collection's characteristic facets, along with its silver finish, play with light in a way that results in reflections and chiaroscuro effects that are both elegant and amusing."

Brazil's Campana brothers designed both a water and a wine caddy using thin sticks of bent aluminium, as an extension of their 2004 Blow Up collection.
"Back in 2004 we partnered with Alessi to explore ways of fusing industrial processes with the traditional techniques of Brazilian craftsmanship," the duo said. "We selected aluminium rods to be assembled together randomly to create several types of light and airy three-dimensional pieces."

The Bouroullecs, from France, created the Ovale glassware and ceramic dinnerw...