Friday 27 July 2012
Thursday 26 July 2012
Monday 23 July 2012
Ohhh!!! How Original!!!
This word makes the luck of thousands of Ebay-sellers and crooks who try to raise the value of the item they sell:
Original
Original could mean "firsthand", "initial", "from the source"...
...but could also mean "eccentric", "unique".
(How many Bowman yachts have been sold with "original" white rigging! GBJ was only using either blue or green one!)
Discovering Red Rubber Seals on this very primitive flathead of the Brevetti Robbiati business, i only had this thought:
HOW ORIGINAL!!!
Saturday 21 July 2012
Friday 20 July 2012
A. & M.G. Sassoon
When British designers revisit an Italian coffee machine...
License to manufacture was bought by Aubrey and Marion Gay Sassoon - after importing a few years Brevetti Robbiati coffee machines (here or here) - from Giordano Robbiati, the designer of this stovetop coffee machine (1946).
You'll find the 3 leaflets here, the box here and the Uk patent here and other machines of my collection here.
More about the couple Sassoon here.
(Press on Newer post (bottom left) to scroll up my discoveries about the Sassoons)
Adverts in Magazines here, Article in Newspaper here.
For me, they managed to sublimate the invention... giving it even softer, more organic, more streamlined lines than the inventor himself:
_ the jug lid looks like liquid,
_ the octagonal bakelite knob with rounded fluid shape (Why the 20 ridges of the Robbiati knobs?),
_ the Jug handle so round!!! (The huge screw distracts but brings a "industrial design" detail)
_ the portafilter handle minimalistic and functional (not very ergonomic but hey! it's working!).
And this not-to-be-ignored PRIDE!!!!
License to manufacture was bought by Aubrey and Marion Gay Sassoon - after importing a few years Brevetti Robbiati coffee machines (here or here) - from Giordano Robbiati, the designer of this stovetop coffee machine (1946).
*****
More about the couple Sassoon here.
(Press on Newer post (bottom left) to scroll up my discoveries about the Sassoons)
Adverts in Magazines here, Article in Newspaper here.
*****
_ the jug lid looks like liquid,
_ the octagonal bakelite knob with rounded fluid shape (Why the 20 ridges of the Robbiati knobs?),
_ the Jug handle so round!!! (The huge screw distracts but brings a "industrial design" detail)
_ the portafilter handle minimalistic and functional (not very ergonomic but hey! it's working!).
And this not-to-be-ignored PRIDE!!!!
LONDON
ENGLAND
BRITISH PATENT
Absolutely Striking!!!
and the CHERRY to top it all!
(or Mirabelle Plum for the yellow version
and Plum for the Blue one)
Gorgeous!
Honoring of an Inventor - D. Josef Stern - 1954
"The achievement award of the Austrian inventor association has been granted to the owner of the business Stella-Maschinen-Vienna (First district) , Mr. D. Josef Stern. The Austrian Patent Office awarded it to him for the constructions of 5 patents in the last 5 years. The espresso machines STELLA were sent by the Economic Promotion Institute of the Federal Chamber of Commerce to fairs in Paris, Casablanca, Utrecht, Brussels, Stockholm, Frankfurt among others with a lot of success. The inquiries and orders coming in day after day from different countries of the world shows that, through the espresso machines Stella, the Austrian export has been enriched of an interesting item. Worth to be highlighted as particularly meritorious is that these machines are made nearly in there whole from domestic materials."
Thursday 19 July 2012
Wednesday 18 July 2012
Never forget
A few weeks ago, i was telling you the personal story of Desider Stern (here) and how he spent a few nights in Kosice...
... It is not without very strong emotions that i heard they lately arrested the 97 years old Csizsik-Csatary in Budapest.
For more information, read this article on cnn.com.
Let us not forget!
... It is not without very strong emotions that i heard they lately arrested the 97 years old Csizsik-Csatary in Budapest.
For more information, read this article on cnn.com.
Let us not forget!
Tuesday 17 July 2012
General question to the visitors of my Blog - Part 3
Any decent reason that would explain the amount of work on the "teeth" of this Brevetti Robbiati portafilter?
Picture of 2 portafilters of "very early" flatheads (with front pressure valve):
Picture of 2 portafilters of "very early" flatheads (with front pressure valve):
General question to the visitors of my Blog - Part 2
Any decent reason that would explain the amount of work on the "teeth" of this Brevetti Robbiati portafilter?
General question to the visitors of my Blog - Part 1
Any decent reason that would explain the amount of work on the "teeth" of this Brevetti Robbiati portafilter?
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