Anna and Gian Franco Gasparini make big names when their "La Via Lattea" for Officina Alessi won Design Plus 2010 Award for product design of consumer goods.

"La Via Lattea," is a collection of four knives for hard and soft cheeses, was designed in 2009 in association with Andrea Berti cutlery works in Tuscany.

«The flavors and perfumes of the cheeses change as you move from the edge of the form towards the centre. In order to savour the entire variety of flavors that the cheese contains, you require proper blades for each type of crust hardness and for each texture of the cheese. “La Via Lattea” consists of four specialist Knives: one for hard cheese, one for semi-hard cheese, one for soft cheese and one for semi-soft cheese, plus a Fork for hard and semi-hard cheeses and a Server for soft and semi-soft cheeses. The set is rounded off with the Guide to cutting and tasting 35 Italian cheeses of Protected Designation of Origin and some excellent European cheeses and a holder in a double-thickness fabric of heavy cotton». - Anna and Gian Franco Gasparini