About
Alissia
Melka-Teichroew, founder and creative director of Alissia MT
Design, which will soon be known as BY:AMT , is a New World-Old
World mash-up. The daughter of a French mother and U.S.father,
she was born and raised in the Netherlands. She is a graduate
of Design Academy Eindhoven (The Netherlands) and holds a Master
of Industrial Design from the Rhode Island School of Design
(USA). After stints in Paris, San Francisco, and Boston, she
finally alighted in New York, her true home. She now lives and
works in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn.
ALISSIA
Design came into being soon after Alissia’s 2000 graduation
from The Design Academy. The US version of ALISSIA Desgin, Alissia
MT Design was launched in 2005. While developing her own original
projects, she also served a seven-month design residency at
the renowned design consultancy IDEO and also worked on staff
at Puma North America. In 2006, she decided to concentrate on
AMT full time.
Alissia’s
transcontinental background is reflected in her fluidity and
fluency of her designs. Attuned to the latest design innovations,
trends, and materials, she infuses her work with her own unique,
charismatic personality and mischievous sensibility. Her products
are savvy, sophisticated, and witty: the archetypical diamond
ring rendered in candy-colored acrylic, ceramic plates folded
in easy-to-hold shapes (Handful of Plates), a mirror that transposes
the viewer’s face over an iconic image of feminine beauty
(ME-ror).
This uncanny
ability to tweak expectations has delighted design cognoscenti
and consumers alike. ID Magazine, Nylon Magazine, New York Times
and InView among many other publications, have featured Alissia
MT products. Hip boutiques around the world carry them, including
the MoMA store and Conran Shop. Melka-Teichroew has also exhibited
her work at the Salone del Mobile Milano, the International
Contemporary Furniture Fair in New York, 100% Design Tokyo,
and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
One of her
most recent projects, a modular series of branching clothes
hooks, Tree Hooked, is collaboration with Jan Habraken of WATdesign.
This partnership is a personal one as well, since Alissia and
Jan wed in October 2006. The two are developing on more joint
projects, while ALISSIA mt is preparing to launch a new series
of playful acrylic jewelry.
Contact:
Alissia Melka-Teichroew
123 Noble Street, #2
Brooklyn, NY 11222
Tel.: 347-529-5655
Cell: 401-286-7803
Fax: 718-228-8966
www.alissiamt.com
