Nativity Scene by Alessi

The Nativity scene family from Alessi is growing bigger and bigger every year. A perfect contemporary update to a heartwarming custom and a collector series of Christmas figurines, the nativity scene features hand painted key characters with their trademark quirky facial expressions. With Alessi behind the scene, no surprise that all the characters are pretty and witty. Display the entire collection to your guest and have it in sight when you tell the nativity story this Christmas.

The idea of the nativity scene first mooted when Alessi created a hand-painted porcelain nativity scene for a Christmas window display in the late 1990s. Back then, Italian cartoonist and illustrator Massimo Giacon has created the quirky interpretation of the Christmas story with his cute figures which instantly become a hit. By 2007 Alessi produced the first porcelain figure and since then, the range has been expanded each year, with input from designer Miriam Mirri and artist Marcello Jori.