Marc Quinn - illy Art Collection

The Designer

This illy Art Collection designed by Marc Quinn. Six eyes portrayed individually in their uniqueness, enlarged so as to capture their most intimate essence: Marc Quinn has created the “Iris” collection to reveal all that goes beyond the gaze and reaches into the soul of our existence. The artwork “Iris” brings colour into conceptual art, celebrating the relationship between art and science, the human body and the perception of beauty.



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.