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This new-look kettle is one of Achille Castiglioni’s many designs that never made it into production and is the result of his indefatigable curiosity and flair for experimentation.
Bulbul reveals Castiglioni’s extraordinary ability to transfer qualities and functions into a project from objects belonging to completely different spheres.

This game of transfers has often resulted in the equally famous ironic dimension of many of his works.
Bulbul is a perfect kettle imagined in the rounded shape of a curling stone: from frozen water to evaporated water, a divertissement amplified by the name chosen by Castiglioni, “bul, bul”, meaning “it’s boiling, it’s boiling” in the traditional dialect of Milan, where this unforgettable designer was born.