The Alessi Diabolix was created as part of the F.F.F. (Family Follows Fiction) metaproject, an operation in the early 1990s that aimed to explore the affective structure of shapes & objects, starting from the idea of reproducing the object creation process followed by children & primitive cultures. The Diabolix bottle opener was a great success, perhaps because it married the creative energies of Centro Studi Alessi with a traditional object from the Alessi catalogue.