So I won’t comment design, this is why we buy SMEG for this amount of money ) but hey, it’s a kettle first. So few things our family didn’t really like but we are still keeping it 1. It’s made of metal on the outside, and at boiling temperature it gets super hot on the outside, to the extent that if you touch it - you almost get burnt 2. It’s metal and this really heavy. Add 1.7L of water - and you can hardly hold it with one hand. Kid can’t hold it for sure. 3. It has square rounded base. Unless you put the kettle ideally matching the base, corners are sticking out. See my pics with ideal match, and 30 degree difference. All in all we agreed to keep it, but it’s a shame design of this item is above basic functional expectations of a kettle