Alessi Parmenide is a funky cheese grater with a coloured cheese cellar in thermoplastic resin in selected colours and mirror polished steel. Designed by Alejandro Ruiz it brings two aspects of the traditional household scene together, the cheese grater and the serving bowl. Parmenide also becomes an attractive piece of tableware once the cheese has been grated, and is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.