Light the fire with the pop icon - Alessi Firebird!

In 1993, Guido Venturini, architect and designer, attended a design workshop to investigate the creative dimension of objects, their ability to inspire, intrigue and amuse people. Following the workshop, he created the Firebird, a gas lighter with a phallic-shaped in honor of fertility.
With an educated but explicit erotic allusion, it triggered, at the time, a lot of criticism among the more puritanical circles.

Over the years, Firebird has become a real pop icon and, when it went out of production, was obsessively searched by collectors, willing to invest considerable amounts of money to have it in their collections.

Almost 30 years after his creation, Alessi brand proposes a new edition: Firebird 2.0, an electric lighter that supplies enough heat to light a candle (even when the wick is very short), a gas cooker or a traditional fireplace. A version at the cutting-edge of technology, it is assumed as a quirky, fun and provocative object.
It recharges via a USB port, works without flammable liquid and does not create a real flame. Instead, it produces a small electric arc capable of generating the heat necessary to light things.