Lisa Vincitorio with Fruit Loop: Apples for Alessi

In the world of high design, the fruit bowl comes in many shapes and forms.

There are spiky bowls constructed from wire sticks; bowls woven from anodised aluminium; moulded bowls in resin and concrete; and even a bowl constructed out of toy plastic soldiers.

In short, fruit bowls have been done to death.

Undeterred, Lisa Vincitorio chose to design one during her final year at Melbourne's RMIT University.

"Although the fruit bowl had been overdone, I realised that it had not been done in a different way," explains the 22-year-old industrial design graduate.

Vincitorio's approach was to design a doughnut-shaped, stainless steel fruit bowl that is so unusual it has been snapped up by Italian design giant, Alessi.

It's something many established designers only dream about and the quietly spoken Vincitorio, who lives at home with her parents in Reservoir, is both honoured and stunned that Alessi would take a chance with an unknown designer.

"You don't imagine that a third-year university project would be picked up by the same company that produces the work of designers like Philippe Starck," says Vincitorio. "It's unreal and, to this day, it hasn't really hit me."

Success may become more apparent to the young designer this week, when her bowl - named Fruit Loop - starts to appear in design stor

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