A.R.V. - A.? Rosario Vicari - NEGRI S.A. ? / Maquina Express Familiar , Argentina, Perú ?

 I am sharing my CONFUSION with you now.

Remember my collection of badges? (see HERE)

You will find 2 badges with the name Rosario, both on Argentinian Or Peruvian? coffee machines:

HERE and HERE

The "El Petiso" machine looks like this (Best Picture Award 2013):

The "A.R.V." is HERE

Until now, i knew NOTHING about these coffee machines.

Maybe, there is "Something" here,

Look carefully at this picture:

The little yellow sticker says "NEGRI S.A.".

I didn't find much, but enough to make me frown my old face.

First this:

And then that:

Translation:

Foundry

Light Alloy

Negri S.A.

Vicari Rosario

Mystery solved?

The 11th Post of my Blog

 (now more than 2000 posts in 10 years)

 dates June, 21. 2011!

see Here

What a journey!

Mirköz szövetkezet alumínium kávéfőző - Elektro-Atomic

 Látta valaki a mirköz kávéfőzőt?

Did you see the coffee machine made by Mirköz?

(Let it translate by your mobile phone for example with Google lens

unless you understand Magyar)

Aparently there is a patent infrigment here.

The machine should look like this:

Nobody's gonna know... Part 2

 Or is the electric base missing on this machine i have seen a unique picture of once in 2013?

(Obviously, you know... Aluminium and Alzheimer... whatever)

Szigony - Number 34

 It's not everyday you will see what is under a badge,

so for the hungarian machines, it might look like this:

(Number is matching the number on the neck)

- Thank you Roberto - 

Nobody's gonna know...

 ...How would they know?

It's a small Model, small like rather 18cm than 20cm.

Made in Hungary.

No place for the badge.

With random bakelite parts.

And a weird "sharp angled" base which remind me of the Stella 104.

No marks.

Who made that?

- Thank you Gábor -

The door of opportunity will stay shut forever... May you rest in Peace Fiorella Robbiati (? - 2021)

 

It would have been a failure if i didn't try...

... at the end of the day, you enjoyed your right to privacy.

I would so much have liked to get to know you,

and talk about your father.

Ciao Fiorella.

State Library Victoria - Coffee machine from the Sylvester Longo Collection

 

If you have any information, please do let me know!

And if you want to see it, go to the State Library Victoria link

State Library Victoria

328 Swanston Street

Melbourne 3000

Australia

"Good design in aluminium" - Exhibition curated by Julien Hébert - Ottawa 1956

 „good design in aluminium“

Il National Industrial Design Council di Ottawa , ha organizzato una mostra di oggetti in alluminio di tredici paesi , diretta da Julien Hébert .

L'Italia ha partecipato con una struttura Olivetti di Marcello Nizzoli , con un ventilatore Zerowatt di Ezio Pirali , con una caffettiera elettrica „Atomica“  di Giordano Robbiati , Novate , con forbici dei Fratelli Benetti di Ferrara , e metri Sapa in alluminio anodizzato di Ugo Saldarini, Milano.

Fra i partecipanti degli altri paesi : Lisa Johansson Pape ( Finlandia , lampade ) , Ernest Race ( Inghilterra , sdraio ) , Erik Herlow ( Danimarca , pentole ) , George Nelson ( USA , tavolo ) .

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"Good design in aluminum"

The National Industrial Design Council of Ottawa has organized an exhibition of aluminum objects from thirteen countries, directed by Julien Hébert.

Italy participated with an Olivetti structure by Marcello Nizzoli, with a Zerowatt fan by Ezio Pirali, with an "Atomica" electric coffee maker by Giordano Robbiati, Novate, with scissors by the Benetti brothers from Ferrara, and Sapa meters in anodized aluminum by Ugo Saldarini, Milan.

Participants from other countries included: Lisa Johansson Pape (Finland, lamps), Ernest Race (England, deckchair), Erik Herlow (Denmark, pots), George Nelson (USA, table).

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A bundle of interesting information here, i just list a few:

_ first proof of the electric "Atomic" of Giordano Robbiati - dating 1956!

_ Proof that Robbiati's design was nationaly and internationaly praised within a few years after his design.

_ Julien Hébert is the guy that brought Design to Canada. A legend.

_ Giordano Robbiati represents Italy among and handful of other design pieces.

_ Among those design pieces: THE Zerowatt of Ezio Pireli and an Olivetti designed by Marcello Nizzoli

_ Internationally in very good company: Lisa Johansson Pape, Ernest Race, Erik Herlow, George Nelson ... The whoswho of 50s design.

_ The exhibition toured in Canada (Ottawa, Vancouver...) and in the USA

_ "Atomica" in Quotation Marks as you would do for a Trade Mark... una caffettiera elettrica "Atomica".

_ It's not a fair, or a commercial event, or advertising in newspapers... it's only about design... and that makes a change.

My life hasn't changed much!

 

Guess what! It has been five years!

I still do think that if Stella, Sassoon, etc farted once somewhere,

it is worth going there,

having a sniff and

taking a photo.

This is my life.

Looking forward to hear from you Jack!

17.01.1968 - it`s arrived!

 

- The Kiskőrös Vegyes Ktsz. 
became involved in the production 
of coffee machines. 
Prototypes of Atomicpress and
 Elektropress coffee makers
 are already in the cooperative.

Greetings to the Hungarian "poison lovers" - 03.12.1968

 

Solti Márton (1897-1982)

 

Pressure release - the 2 different designs

 For the ones among us who didn't know.

The first business of Giordano Robbiati - Part 2

On the Part 1, i wrote this sentense:

"_ to 2 other places to reorganise, (i am working on it)"

So the first one, and this is backed up by an interview that Franco Balzarotti made with Alfredo Robbiati, is:

Via Brioschi 53.

It fits with the address given on one document of the Licensing of a coffee machine  in Hungary.

Nowadays, the place look like this:

The second address, which proved to be too small, hence moving to Cesare Battisti 22, is:

Via Cornicione, Novate Milanese

Look carefully at the Building with the White industry roofing at the top right corner of the picture.

That's a place we know already, it is indeed: Via Cesare Battisti, 22

This is where he will work until 1958.

Giordano Robbiati - Patent n°336630 - Depositato 21 March 1942

 

ROBBIATI Giordano a Milano - Tt. Dispositivo

a coltelli tangenziali mollegiati per disincrostare e

pulire tubi, specialmente per caldaie tubolari. -

Dp. 21 marzo 1942 .- Cs. 22luglio 1942 396630

Reminds me of that one: here

Stay tuned..

 I am discovering the pictures i took in Budapest in October 2013.

And THEY ROCK!!!

Wait for me until i translate these papers...

In the meantime, i realized that i must have known the address of Giordano Robbiati since 2013.

So much more to talk about...

The first business of Giordano Robbiati - Part 1

This is what Franco Balzarotti wrote to me in an email on the 13th of Mai 2011.

It's the answer given by Alfredo Robbiati to my written questions.

It all fits perfectly to my last discovery:

Next to the train station:

How it looks now:

Closer view:

Alfredo Robbiati was born in 1936 so "8-9 years old" is correct.

After the Bombings of August 1943 of Milan (including the business of Mr. Robbiati, see here, of the street here), the business will move:

_ to 2 other places to reorganize, (i am working on it)

_ then to Via Cesare Battisti 22, Novate Milanese (like seen on this business card here and my research here)

_ and finally to Via Pietro da Cemmo, 4. (see here and here for the plans of the new business)

Annuario Politecnico Italiano 1942-43 / Modellisti Meccanici / Robbiati Giordano - Via Cucchiari 27 , Milano

 

Letter Szigony Müszaki Vállalat (Budapest, Hungary) nach Metallwarenfabrik in Zug (Switzerland) - 1948

 ... but why?

The Agreement...

 Oh Yes! Did i hear the voice of one of Imre Simon's son as i was finding these documents.

The last time we met, he was talking of an "agreement".

Little did i know that i could find documents that prove this "agreement".

We are talking about the patent HU140404 of Giordano Robbiati (i posted recently here and here).

For those who discover this Blog now, we are talking about this:

The patent HU140404 was protected from:

(published on 15. December 1950)

until:

(1964)

Very early in the registration process, there was a change.

If you look carefully on the 2 documents citing ROBBIATI, a second number appears: R9099

That's the licencing to Desider Stern taking place in front of our eyes:

(16 August 1949)

(21 April 1948)

Now, a single person could not have financed it alone. Not at that time.

So Money had to be found.

And then comes the AGREEMENT.

If you make a reverse research in the database, searching for the number and not for name (as i usually would do), you will find  Giordano Robbiati of course and Desider Stern, but also these 2:

Maybe you don't recognise their name, so let me help you a little:

They also did something very special VERY EARLY, they trademarked the name "ATOMIC":

(25. November 1947)

10 years later, Imre Simon would do the same:

And other names too, BAMBI (see above) and PICCOLO:

And some time later:

Wait, what's an "Accupress" coffee machine?

To be continued...