Lee Ufan - illy Art Collection

Lee Ufan’s iconic strokes light up the surfaces of the cups in this illy Art Collection, a reference to the dense brush strokes of the “Winds” and “Correspondence” series.This Korean artist is highly respected and renowned for his minimalist sculptures and paintings, which focus on the viewer’s experiential engagement with the place for which they were created. Infinity is a central theme of Lee’s work, evidenced in his iconic series of paintings, where the artist elevates the process of applying colour to the canvas with minimalist brush strokes, lines or dots

Illy Art Collection

A passion for beauty and well-made objects, a deep admiration for contemporary art , and our blend’s exceptional quality all led us to combine coffee’s sensory pleasure with the aesthetic pleasure of art by rethinking an everyday object: the coffee cup.

This is how the illy Art Collections are born: small works of art in the form of a cup, numbered and signed, transforming the act of drinking an espresso into an experience that involves the senses and mind