ALLEX

Allex is the scissors brand of Hayashi Cutlery, a company crafting blades in Seki City since 1946, a town in Gifu Prefecture so renowned for cutlery it is often called the Sheffield of Japan. When Allex launched their iconic scissors in 1974 they immediately won the Japanese Good Design Award, and the design has remained completely unchanged ever since. Today they hold the rare distinction of being the first Japanese product permanently housed in the Die Neue Sammlung design museum in Munich. A pair of Allex scissors is not a purchase, it is an acquisition.